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FMLA Protects Employees Who Request Leave Before They Are Eligible

Posted in Family and Medical Leave Act

An employee who has worked for you for less than a year mentions that he will be undergoing surgery that will require him to miss three months of work. You do not want to deal with the havoc that a three-month absence will wreak on your schedule; can you fire him? He is not disabled and the surgery is not for a work-related injury. And since he has not yet worked a full year, he is not eligible for leave under FMLA. So no problem, right?Continue reading this entry