Bonus while on FML

seeleyhr

We provide performance bonuses for employee's quarterly. The policy has been that if an employee has not been on the job for a percentage of the time, they do not receive it. Does anyone know if an employee is on FML whether or not they should receive it even though they have not been performing any duties to earn it?

Balloonman

I don't know if it is right or wrong, but I would apply the same policy you normally do.
My $0.02 worth.
DJ The Balloonman

System

I looked in our HR Executive Special Report, "FMLA Leave: A Walk Through the Legal Labyrinth"
[url]http://www.hrhero.com/special.shtml#fmlaleave[/url]

The regulations categorize bonuses in the two following ways:

• Attendance and Safety. If you give a bonus to an employee for perfect
attendance or safety, you cannot count an employee’s FMLA absence
against him when calculating this bonus.

• Performance and Production. If you give out a bonus based on
employee performance or production, you must pay the bonus to
employees on FMLA leave in the same way you pay other employees
who are on either paid or unpaid leave.

James Sokolowski
HRhero.com

seeleyhr

Thank you. Some of the articles I have been reading have indicated this but it was felt by some here that since they could not perform anything to earn this, that they would not be entitled.