Every Human Resources manager needs a proven resource that will ensure that whenever a tricky question comes up concerning the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), you will have the right answer.
AHI's Complete FMLA Compliance Kit gives you expert advice on how to handle the FMLA's complex compliance issues. The Kit includes:
1. FMLA Compliance Guide — summarizes each part of the law, along with over 115 questions and answers covering:
Which employers and employees are covered under the law
Under what circumstances employees are eligible for FMLA leave
How to calculate the correct amount of FMLA leave
What the rules are for allowing and administering intermittent leave
How FMLA leave affects an employee's pay and benefits
What both the employer's and employee's notification requirements are
What the record-keeping requirements are under the law
How reinstatement and termination work under the law
Bonus: You also receive a state-by-state guide to the FMLA that covers individual states' laws that overlap and intersect with the federal FMLA.
2. FMLA Compliance CD — contains useful forms and tracking aids to save you time and effort when administering the FMLA, including:
Required Notification Forms, Medical Certification Forms, Military Leave Forms — keeps you in compliance with the new employer notification requirements added by the new regulations.
Excel FMLA Tracking Sheets — four spreadsheets that enable you to track FMLA leave for individual employees (both regular and military leave), keep a log for the organization of each employee’s leave status, and record general monthly absenteeism.
Supervisor FMLA Tip Sheet — FMLA basics for all of your supervisors, which provides them with a quick, handy reference on FMLA definitions, their responsibilities, and more.
FMLA Poster — meets the posting requirement for employers covered under the FMLA.
Sample FMLA Policy — can be inserted into your company’s handbook to ensure you accurately and completely convey employees’ FMLA rights and obligations to them.
Time-Saving Documents — including a leave request form, return to work form, physician recertification form, and more.
3. FMLA Multimedia Presentation CD — If you have ever had trouble managing FMLA leave or suspected that employees were abusing FMLA leave, this webinar recording will give you the information you need to take immediate action to solve this problem. During the presentation, FMLA expert, Linda Southard, shares her 20 years of experience managing all forms of employee medical leave, including FMLA, to give you 12 concrete methods for curbing FMLA abuse and advice on critical FMLA leave dilemmas, including:
What part of the new FMLA regs increased the leverage of employers to control FMLA leave
Tips on how to use employee notice requirements to prevent leave abuse
What is and is not a "treatment visit" for a chronic condition
Why HR shouldn't be the one to review the medical certification or even contact the health care provider
What questions to ask the doctor when clarifying intermittent leave
What you can require of employees when they're calling in after being approved for intermittent leave to combat abuse
How to use the recertification process for chronic conditions to decrease suspected abuse
Why you should avoid leave stacking when tracking leave
What are the favorite targets of Department of Labor (DOL) investigators when auditing FMLA leave practices
Get all the advice you'll ever need to make sure FMLA mistakes don't ever come back to cost you devastating DOL fines.