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Both my toddler of whom I am the primary caregiver, and myself have chronic conditions that make me eligible for FMLA at work.
Since we are both chronic, am I allowed still only 12 weeks? I can't foresee needing more but since everytime one of us has surgery it uses four weeks, excluding follow up appointments and therapy. If things get bad we can burn that pretty darn quickly.Looking for FMLA experts!?
Yep - 12 weeks is the limit, under FMLA. You are entitled to use that 12 weeks (assuming you are an eligible employee working for a covered employer) of unpaid, job-protected leave for your own serious health condition, the serious health condition of an immediate family member (dependent child and/or your spouse), or the birth or adoption of a child, or any combination thereof. Once you exceed the 12 weeks per leave year, you no longer have any of the protections of the FMLA. Your employer establishes the leave year - it can be the calendar year, a rolling year (i.e., 52 weeks from the date of leave, whenever it occurs), or a fiscal year, whatever.
The best sources for information on the FMLA are the Department of Labor website (www.dol.gov), the Wage and Hour Division's toll-free help line (1-866-4US-WAGE), or the actual regulations themselves - Title 29 of the US Code of Federal Regulations, Part 825.
Hope this helps.
my understanding from working for a doctor and having to fill out these forms are that you only fill them out if you need more than 3 days at one time to be off.
How many times a year are you having to have surgeries and therapies? You need to talk to your human resources dept at work and have them explain more in detail to you your options for you since sounds like a lot of leave time is needed.