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Don’t Hesitate to Designate: DOJ Letters Claim Employers Must Designate Qualifying Leave as FMLA Leave

[09/30/19]

Posted on September 30, 2019 in HR Insights for Health Care

Published by: Hall Render

Two recent opinion letters by the Wage and Hour Division of the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) interpret the Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”) to require that whenever an employee takes leave for an FMLA-qualifying reason, the employer must designate such leave as FMLA leave, even if the employee would prefer to “save... READ MORE

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