Counting Correctly?

njjel

An ee is out for the entire month of April and the entire month of May on FMLA. Returns to work on June 1st. How much time do you charge to their FMLA time? Secondly an ee is out from June 11th and returns to work on June 21st. How many days are counted against her FMLA leave time?

deniseE

I thought that you counted only days that the ee would be expected to be at work...so it would exclude typical days off and company holidays...but maybe I'm wrong...

marc

Assuming an 8 hour day, M-F workweek, your second example would utilize 6 days, or 48 hours of a 480 hour FML bank. Using the same assumptions, your first example is 43 days of leave or 344 hours of FML bank.

The examples are fairly straight-forward, is there more to these situations than meets the eye?

Don D

You simply count each work hour missed. Nothing magical beyond the ability to count hours one at a time and subtract them from the entitlement.

njjel

OK. So we don't count the weekends for the purpose of time out but we do count them for the "more than 3 days" is that correct?

WO

You would count any hours missed in their scheduled work week, to include holidays and all of the first 3 days.

Don D

Yes njjel, your post #4 is correct. FMLA is 'time away from scheduled work'. More than three days of covered illness is not limited to work hours/days.