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Auburn University provides eligible employees job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons. Employees are eligible if they have worked for a covered employer for at least one year and for 1,250 hours during the previous 12 months.
This policy is administered in accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and all other applicable federal and state laws.
More information: FMLA Procedures
FMLA requires employers to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to Eligible Employees for the following reasons:
Eligible employees with a spouse, son, daughter, or parent on active duty or call for active duty status in the National Guard or Reserves in support of a contingency operation may use their 12-week leave entitlement to address certain qualifying exigencies. Qualifying exigencies may include attending certain military events, arranging for alternative childcare, addressing certain financial and legal arrangements, attending certain counseling sessions, and attending post-deployment reintegration briefings.
FMLA also includes a special leave entitlement that permits eligible employees to take up to 26 weeks of leave to care for a covered service member or covered veteran during a single 12-month period.
A covered service member is a current member of the Armed Forces, including a member of the National Guard or Reserves, who has a serious illness or injury incurred in the line of duty on active duty that may render the service member medically unfit to perform his or her duties for which the service member is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy; or is in outpatient status; or is on the temporary disability retired list.
A veteran who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy for a serious injury or illness is a covered veteran if he or she:
* For a veteran who was discharged prior to March 8, 2013, the effective date of the FMLA Final Rule -- the period between October 28, 2009, and March 8, 2013 -- will not count towards the determination of the five-year period. For example, if a service member retired on October 28, 2007, he or she would have had three years remaining of the five-year period on October 28, 2009. The family member requesting FMLA leave will have three years to begin military caregiver leave starting on March 8, 2013. Likewise, if a service member was discharged on December 1, 2010, the five-year period will begin on March 8, 2013, and extend until March 8, 2018.
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