Can Your Employer Make You Use PTO During FMLA Leave?
Your employer can usually require you to spend your vacation days during FMLA leave, and your twelve weeks don’t get any longer for it. There are two exceptions, and one of them is new.
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How Many Hours Is Part-Time? What Benefits You Still Get
Most employers call anything under 30 to 35 hours part-time — but no federal law defines the term, which means your employer decides. That decision controls your health insurance, retirement plan and leave, but not your wage, overtime or anti-discrimination protections. Here’s where each threshold falls, which benefits you still get below the line, and how to check the ones you already qualify for.
Can You Be Fired While on Workers’ Comp?
Workers’ comp pays you. It doesn’t keep your job. Four other laws might — including one that makes firing you the day your FMLA runs out a serious problem for your employer.