Title: Iowa Civil Rights Commission Disclaimer
1Iowa Civil Rights CommissionDisclaimer
- The information contained in this presentation is
a brief overview and should not be construed as
legal advice or exhaustive coverage of the topic.
2FMLAANDPREGNANCY LEAVE
3CHAPTER 216 OF THE IOWA CODE
- Prohibits discrimination of a person temporarily
disabled by pregnancy - Where other leave is not available, an employer
shall not refuse to grant a pregnant employee an
unpaid leave of absence for up to 8 weeks, as
required by doctors orders.
4UNDER CHAPTER 216 OF THE IOWA CODE
- Pregnancy is regarded as a temporary disability.
- For the sake of comparison, an investigator would
compare how other employees with temporary
disabilities are treated under an employers
policies - However, employers must attempt to reasonably
accommodate a pregnant employee.
5FMLAFAMILY AND MEDICAL LEAVE ACT 1993
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- Requires employers with 50 or more employees
within a 75-mile radius to provide eligible
employees with unpaid family and medical leaves
of absence of up to 12 weeks during a 12 month
period.
6WHICH EMPLOYERS ARE COVERED ?
- The FMLA covers employers who have employed
50 or more employees for each working day during
each 20 or more calendar workweeks (not
necessarily consecutive workweeks) in the current
or preceding calendar year.
7WHO IS ELIGIBLEFOR FMLA LEAVE ?
- Must be employed by a covered employer
- Must have been employed for at least 12 months
with the covered employer as of the date the
leave commences - Must have been employed for at least 1,250 hours
of service for that employer during the previous
12-month period immediately preceding
commencement of the leave - Work at a site with at least 50 employees or a
site where the employer has at least 50 employees
within a 75-mile radius.
8TYPES OF LEAVE AVAILABLE UNDER FMLA
- FAMILY LEAVE
- MEDICAL LEAVE
9FAMILY LEAVE
- An eligible employee, male or female, may
- take family leave because of
- 1. The birth of a child/children
- 2. The adoption of a child/children
- 3. If the employee will have a
foster - child/children placed in
his/her care - 4. To take care of a spouse,
child/children - or parent with a serious
health condition -
10 MEDICAL LEAVE
- An eligible employee may take medical leave
- When an employee is unable to
perform - his or her job because of the
- employees own serious health
- condition ( includes pregnancy,
- miscarriages or complications or
- illnesses related to pregnancy )
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113 WAYS FMLA LEAVE MAY BE TAKEN
- A leave of up to 12 consecutive weeks
- Intermittent leave taken in separate blocks of
time due to a single injury or illness - A reduced work leave schedule whereby the usual
hours per workweek or per workday of the employee
are reduced
12PAID OR UNPAID LEAVE?
- The FMLA does not require a covered
employer to provide any paid leave. Under certain
circumstances, the FMLA permits the employee to
choose or the employer to require substitution of
paid leave, which has been accrued pursuant to
the employers policies, for any part of the
leave, so that the total paid and unpaid leave
equals 12 weeks.
13SUBSTITUTION FOR BIRTH, ADOPTION OR FOSTER CARE
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- If an employee is requesting leave due to
birth, adoption, or foster care placement, the
employer may require, or the employee may
request, use of - accrued vacation
leave - accrued personal
leave
14REQUIREMENTS FOR REQUESTING LEAVE
- An employee must provide the employer at
least 30 days advance notice before FMLA leave
is to begin if the need is foreseeable. If
circumstances require that the leave begin in
less than 30 days, notice must be provided as
soon as practicable. -
- 1 to 2 business days of when the need for
leave becomes known to the employee
15 JOB BENEFITS AND PROTECTION
- For the duration of FMLA leave, the employer
must maintain the employees health coverage
under the existing premium contribution
arrangement through any group health plan.
16JOB RESTORATION
- An employee returning from FMLA leave is
entitled to be restored to either - 1. The same position the
employee - held before the leave
- 2. An equivalent position with
- equivalent benefits, pay
and other - terms and conditions of
- employment
17Iowa Civil Rights Commission
- Grimes Building, 400 E. 14th Street
- Des Moines, Iowa 50319
- 515-281-4121
- 800-457-4416 (toll free)
- fax 515-242-5840
- website www.state.ia.us/government/crc