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Family Medical Leave Case Study

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The Family Medical leave act of 1993 what put into law to help family’s juggle the stressful demand of real life. According to the Wage and Hour Division, employers must offer Family and Medical leave if they have more than 50 employees for more than twenty weeks in the previous calendar year. The next thing the FMLA discusses is which employees qualify to take a covered leave. The first thing is they must work for a covered entity. The guidelines that must be met is that they have been with there employer for 1 year, and have worked at least 1,250 hours in the previous year before the employee has requested this type of time off. They also have to meet the requirement that they are employed where there are 50 or more employees. If an employee

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