Don’t Let Your Managers Make these 15 FMLA Leave Mistakes

Without specific training, your managers may not know what they should be asking employees expecting to use FMLA.

Do they know what does and does not qualify under FMLA?

What if they don't recognize when an employee is asking for FMLA leave?

What if they don't recognize FMLA abuse?

Get your managers prepared with this workshop - whether you attend and train your employees or they attend themselves. We'll cover the15 most common (and serious) errors made when administering FMLA leaveto prevent anyone involved from landing your organization in hot water.

In this 75-minute training session, you'll learn:

• The absolutely most critical things managers must know about FMLA leave
• How to prevent - and correct - the most common FMLA leave mistakes
• The interplay between FMLA, ADA, Workers' Compensation, and disability programs

Program Highlights

How to calculate an employee's actual FMLA leave entitlements

• The two most important criteria when calculating intermittent FMLA leave
• When to retroactively designate time away from work as FMLA leave
• How two 12-month FMLA leave periods may overlap
• Determine when the 1,250 working hours eligibility requirement will have been met

Interfacing the FMLA with the ADA and other employment laws

• Administer proper benefits practices while an employee is on FMLA leave
• Recognize the interfaces between FMLA and workers' compensation
• Reinstating an employee to the same or an equivalent job

Get answers to your managers' most pressing questions

• What are the deadlines for both employers and employees to provide each other notices under the FMLA?
• When can the employer request recertifications of serious health conditions?
• Can an employer contact the employee's health care provider to verify a certification?

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

Max Muller

Max Muller possesses more than 40 years of business experience as an attorney, businessman, and consultant. For many years Max held various operating and executive positions with distribution and information technology companies. In 1990, he began a consulting and professional speaking practice focusing on providing practical solutions in the areas of Workplace Legalities, Inventory Control/Cycle Counting, and OSHA. Max has presented more than 3,000 seminars, webinars, podcasts and audio-conferences throughout the United States, England and Canada, attended or participated in by over 100,000 individuals. Max has authored numerous one and multi-day seminars and workshops, training video scripts, and internet distance learning materials for a number of adult continuing education organizations. And, is the author of the best-selling SHRM-published book, 'The Manager's Guide to HR: Hiring, Firing, Performance Evaluations, Documentation, Benefits, and Everything Else You Need to Know,' Second Edition.