FMLA
03-06-2017 | 09:40 AM
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FMLA
Looking for some feedback from somebody who has used FMLA lately. Can we use FMLA intermittently to drop individual trips or do we have to establish the dates of leave in advance? My wife and I have a little one on the way and I'm trying to figure out if it makes more sense to go the FMLA route or just use sick/vacation time to get the time off I need. Looking for the best way to take about 2 months off paid/mostly paid. I have one week of vacation scheduled the due month and another week the month after.
03-06-2017 | 10:04 AM
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Looking for some feedback from somebody who has used FMLA lately. Can we use FMLA intermittently to drop individual trips or do we have to establish the dates of leave in advance? My wife and I have a little one on the way and I'm trying to figure out if it makes more sense to go the FMLA route or just use sick/vacation time to get the time off I need. Looking for the best way to take about 2 months off paid/mostly paid. I have one week of vacation scheduled the due month and another week the month after.
03-06-2017 | 10:10 AM
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No.. I've got the number and website info. Thanks though. I was just wondering if anybody successfully used FMLA intermittently for parental leave lately.
03-06-2017 | 12:47 PM
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I was told in 2013 that I was the last pilot to be approved by NK for intermittent paternal FMLA because "they weren't required to by law so they weren't going to any longer". I highly suggest you look at other options for childbirth, namely vacation and sick time. Keep in mind, once on FMLA, you are on leave, meaning no bidding, etc. You are well within your rights to use sick time for wife's childbirth and any subsequent care for that child/wife per the CBA.
03-06-2017 | 12:58 PM
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I was told in 2013 that I was the last pilot to be approved by NK for intermittent paternal FMLA because "they weren't required to by law so they weren't going to any longer". I highly suggest you look at other options for childbirth, namely vacation and sick time. Keep in mind, once on FMLA, you are on leave, meaning no bidding, etc. You are well within your rights to use sick time for wife's childbirth and any subsequent care for that child/wife per the CBA.
03-06-2017 | 01:12 PM
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Exactly. Given our CBA language, the only benefit to the FMLA that they'll offer us is if you wished to take unpaid leave. You could certainly contact them to see if they changed their stance on it but that was my experience a few years ago. Doing the same in May and I'm just using a combination of sick/vacation.
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