{"id":892,"date":"2019-11-05T10:36:43","date_gmt":"2019-11-05T05:06:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.complianceprime.com\/blog\/?p=892"},"modified":"2024-05-17T12:23:13","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T06:53:13","slug":"how-to-calculate-intermittent-fmla-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.complianceprime.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/05\/how-to-calculate-intermittent-fmla-time\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Calculate Intermittent FMLA Time?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Intermittent FMLA leave is a flexible way of allowing leave to the employees. FMLA stands for Family and Medical Leave Act. The act allows the employees to take leave to take care of their seriously ill loved ones and also the well-being of themselves. There are three types of FMLA leave: continuous FMLA leave, intermittent FMLA leave, and reduced schedule FMLA leave. An employee can opt for any type of leave as per his requirement. Amongst the three, <\/span>intermittent FMLA leave<\/span><\/a> is the most flexible one and is often opted by employees. The intermittent leave involves breaking down of days or hours into increments to take care of the ill family member or oneself.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Since in intermittent leave, the leave is broken into days or hours, it becomes burdensome to <\/span>keep a record<\/span><\/a> of each and every employee. It is cumbersome to maintain the records of every leave accurately and also keep knowing the fact that the number of days or hours of leave shall not be the same for each employee. Therefore, it becomes a problem while calculating the intermittent FMLA time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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An employee is allowed for a 12-week FMLA leave. For computing intermittent leave, the period is mostly divided into hours. Like if an employee works for 40 hours every week, then his\/her intermittent leave period shall be 40×12=480 hours. Therefore, the employee is eligible for 480 hours of intermittent leave. But, the computation is always not this simple. Also, the employee\u2019s last year\u2019s performance is considered to compute the leave period allowed.<\/span><\/p>\n