February 12th, 2025 | 1:00-5:00 p.m. Eastern
Master the FMLA: Confidently Manage Complex Regulations and Avoid Legal Risks
Does dealing with Family and Medical Leave Act requests make YOU want to take leave? It’s such a stressful and confusing part of your job as an HR professional that it just might. That’s why you need the FMLA Master Class, the premier FMLA training crucial for understanding and complying with FMLA regulations.
Master the essentials, and navigate the trickiest situations with ease
What exactly counts as a qualifying serious health condition? When can you require medical certification? How many hours of FMLA leave does a part-time employee have? How do you manage those small “incremental” leaves? What’s the best way to handle certification? When can you talk to the employee’s doctor? How do you coordinate FMLA with all those state and local leave laws?
These are just a few of the questions you may ask yourself in a given week regarding FMLA requests. Anniken Davenport, Esq., employment law expert and legal trainer, will answer these questions and more. In fact, past attendees say one of the most helpful parts of the training are the real-world scenarios that may come across your desk one day.
Avoid costly mistakes and comply with federal law
This is one area of your job that you must get right–because mistakes could be costly. Since 2012, employee lawsuits claiming FMLA violations have more than tripled. And many of those cases result in million-dollar verdicts or settlements—all because of a simple FMLA mistake at the HR or manager level. Plus, your employees have become experts at playing the FMLA game to their advantage. (It’s nicknamed the “Friday-Monday Leave Act” for a reason!)
On February 12, find out how to prevent and correct FMLA compliance problems and effectively manage every step of the FMLA process. This online training course is the ideal compliance training for anyone who handles FMLA as part of their job.
Course Schedule
FMLA Compliance Essentials
You’ll start with an overview of the law, common types of leave and how to determine eligibility and set your calendar year. We’ll fly through this part, leaving time to focus on the trickiest scenarios and pain points. But don’t worry—you’ll have all the slides to refer back to, or to train less experienced HR staff.
Certifying & Controlling Intermittent Leave
The trickiest and most frequently abused aspect of FMLA is intermittent leave. You’ll master how it works, when it applies, how to manage it and what to do when it isn’t working or is being abused.
Managing Accommodations, Preventing Abuse
As the pandemic proved, the FMLA has a lot of loopholes that can be abused, and a lot of restrictions that can shut employees out from taking the time they need. Discover solutions to the complexity of managing leave so everyone benefits—including your organization.
Return to Work
You must return employees to the same or “equivalent” jobs after FMLA. In this final section, you’ll learn the details to create a successful return-to-work program, plus how to address the challenges that come with it, including discharge, ADA impacts and other reinstatement rules.
Meet your instructor
Anniken Davenport is an attorney and a well-known author and speaker on employment law issues. She is the editor of the HR Specialist: Employment Law newsletter series and has authored several books, including The FMLA Compliance Guide, Bullet-Proof Your Employee Handbook and Employer’s Practical Legal Guide. She is the co-author of the upcoming Labor & Employment Law for the 21st Century, by Prentice Hall. Anniken has served as a professor at Penn State University, where she taught business law and HR management, and she directed the Legal Studies Program at Wilson College.
Why You Should Attend
Hear what your fellow HR professionals are saying about this event:
"The class was very informative and I feel like I learned numerous things from it."
Shelley F.
Teton County
"Very good! I could easily understand what the speaker was talking about and the hand outs have good information to reference."
Raechel G.
St Clair RXIII School District
"The FMLA Master Class was very informative. The information was clear and concise handouts were helpful."
Marcy H.
Keiki O Ka Aina Family Learning Centers
"For being a very complicated issue I found it very informative. I would highly recommend this to anyone that is new to administering the FMLA in their job."
Cathy M.
Douglass Properties
All attendees will receive:
Course Materials
Tailored course materials and handouts include nearly 200 presentation slides. Don’t worry if you need to go back and refer to specific examples and scenarios—you’ll have that available for whenever you need it and receive specific tools to help you master the FMLA essentials, certify and control intermittent leave, manage accommodations, prevent abuse and handle returns to work.
Samples & Templates
Providing the proper forms is critical to administering FMLA correctly. These samples and templates cover your bases, and are easy to edit and customize for all of your FMLA needs.
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