Overview

Family and medical leave is a valuable benefit that allows time off for employees who need to support their own or a family member's health condition or for employees to take time off after the birth or adoption of a child. The Family and Medical Leave Act $($FMLA$)$ is a law that guarantees job$-$protected unpaid leave to certain eligible workers to care for themselves or an immediate family member du illness, birth, and$/$or adoption. Employees must meet the following criteria to be eligible for FMLA:

Work for a public sector agency, public or private school, or private employer

Work for employer for at least $12$ months

Complete $1,250$ total hours of service for employer during the $12-$month period immediately preceding the leave

Work in a facility with a minimum of $50$ employees within a $75-$mile radius

Employees who meet this requirement may use up to $12$ weeks of job$-$protected unpaid leave within a one$-$year period. Note that the be used intermittently and is not required to be used consecutively.

For this assignment, assume you are an HR professional at a small facility that houses $250$ employees onsite. The company is a small sta organization in Texas. The chief financial officer $($CFO$)$ is working with her team to forecast and budget for the next fiscal year. To foreca appropriate budget allocations, she has asked you to review the company's FMLA data to identify trends and risks.

Directions

For this assignment, you will first determine whether the employer qualifies for FMLA. You will then analyze the FMLA data provided in Supporting Materials for trends and risks.

Use the following questions to guide your analysis of trends in the FMLA Report:

What is the data trying to tell you $($e$.$g$.,$ consistencies, increases, or decreases in FMLA data outcomes$)?$

Is this information coming from one or more data sources?

$-$When was the data collected?