DOL Announces Final FMLA Regulations

On the twentieth anniversary of FMLA’s enactment, the DOL issued finalregulations that clarify amendments made in the past few years.

The regulations focus on two areas of FMLA:  military leave (created by the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010) and special rules for airline and flight crew employees (created by the Airline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act). The regulations take effect 30 days after they are published in the Federal Register.

Here is a summary of changes for military qualifying exigency leaves:

·      Employees are now eligible if they have family members serving in the regular armed forces

·      Eligible family members may take leave for purposes of rest and recuperation for up to 15 days, instead of just five days

·      There is a new qualifying exigency leave category for parental care

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