The Essential Guide to Family and Medical Leave

What you need to know about the FMLA, whether your workers are on-site or remote

The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) helps employees balance the demands of work and family. But the law can be hard for employers to apply in the real world―especially when it comes to tracking intermittent leave, completing the proper paperwork, and determining eligibility for different types of leave.

This book has the answers―in plain English―to every employer’s tough questions about the FMLA. It provides detailed information, sample forms, and tools that will help you and your managers figure out:

• who is eligible for leave
• what types of leave are covered
• how much leave employees may take, and
• how to comply with notice and other paperwork requirements.

The 6th edition covers all of the latest changes to the FMLA, including those related to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as changes to state family and medical leave laws.

With Downloadable Forms: download an FMLA policy, notice forms, certification forms, checklists, and more (details inside).

Lisa Guerin is the author or co-author of several Nolo books, including The Manager's Legal Handbook, Dealing with Problem Employees, The Essential Guide to Federal Employment Laws, Workplace Investigations, and Create Your Own Employee Handbook. Guerin has practiced employment law in government, public interest, and private practice where she represented clients at all levels of state and federal courts and in agency proceedings. She is a graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California at Berkeley.

Deborah England is a litigator with more than 20 years of employment law experience. She has published numerous articles and essays on employment and civil rights law, and frequently speaks on these topics before legal and HR professional organizations.