Medical Leave - Not Eligible for FMLA

HRetail

Does anyone have a good option for addressing medical leaves for employees who have less than one year of service (and therefore not eligible fore FMLA)? We do have a leave of absence policy, but it's also for folks who have been around for more than a year. Would you recommend (or not) a medical leave policy for employees with less than one year of service?

marc

Why would you want to open up that can of worms?

If they are EEs you want to have back, then let them re-apply for any opening when their medical issues are resolved.

If that is not sufficient, the first thing I would do is just amend the LOA policy to allow for the under 1 year folks.

NaeNae55

We have a standard health leave policy (taken from our parent company) that was issued before FMLA. There are no specific time limits for employement, though there is a maximum of 6 months to be gone on leave. The policy states it will be on a case by case basis (depends on position, needs of employer and needs of employee).

If we decided that we had a good employee we could use this to allow the employee leave for an urgent leave (not, for instance, for an elected surgery like a face lift). If we had a good employee who wanted leave for non-urgent reasons, we would probably give them the option to reapply. In the end it might not make any difference as we count prior work time if we rehire within 6 months.

We issued a separate policy for FMLA so we have all our bases covered (I hope).

Good luck.

Nae

HR In NH

We allow half the FMLA time period (6 weeks or 240 hours) for those employees employed under one year.

HRinGA

we have a STD policy for 12 weeks at 50% pay. It kicks in with all other benefits: 1st of mo following 60 days.
They're not covered by FMLA, so we can replace, but then we end up paying 150% for the job.