FMLA Compliance in 2025: A Comprehensive Guide & Strategies for Effective Implementation

Many employers find FMLA hard to manage, yet following the rules closely actually makes it easier. This 60-minute FMLA compliance training covers the basics and how to handle the day-to-day processes so you protect the employer while supporting employees.

FMLA mistakes can be expensive, and they can stop employees from getting time to recover from illness or injury, bond with a new child or care for a loved one. You'll work through eligibility, family member and serious health condition definitions, the 12-month rule, recertification, fitness for duty and how the ADA fits in.

If setting boundaries on intermittent FMLA is a struggle, you'll see its limits and benefits for both you and your employees.

• Determine who is eligible for FMLA, including remote and boomerang workers
• Apply the definitions of family member and serious health condition
• Manage intermittent FMLA, part-time schedules and call-in rules
• Choose the right 12-month rule and apply recertification and fitness-for-duty rules
• Explain how the ADA interacts with FMLA, including for mental health conditions
• Recognize FMLA retaliation and handle contact and missing paperwork correctly

• Who is eligible for FMLA
• Remote workers
• Boomerang workers
• What counts as a family member
• The definition of a serious health condition
• Intermittent FMLA rules
• Employees who don't work 40 hours a week
• Which 12-month rule to use
• Making call-in rules work for you
• Recertification rules
• How the ADA fits in
• What FMLA retaliation is
• Fitness for duty
• When you can contact an employee on FMLA
• Mental health and FMLA
• When an employee doesn't return FMLA paperwork

If you have 50 or more employees, or are getting close to that threshold, your employees are probably eligible for FMLA, and you need to understand how it works. Getting it wrong can lead to costly errors and retaliation claims.

The webinar helps both HR and managers understand the process. It suits business owners, HR, compliance and operations professionals, managers and supervisors, project managers and team leaders.

•    Business Owners
•    Human Resources professionals
•    Managers & Supervisors
•    Project Managers
•    Team Leaders
•    Compliance professionals
•    Operations professionals
 

Suzanne Lucas, better known as the Evil HR Lady, has spent the last 25 years in HR, working to make lives better for employees by making HR better. Suzanne's company, Improve Your HR, focuses on improving HR for everyone, through writing, training, and speaking. Suzanne is a regular speaker at conferences and retreats and conducts team-building exercises that people actually look forward to.Suzanne had a wealth of experience in guiding people through complex legal scenarios and providing support and coaching to those who had lost their jobs, enabling them to strive toward success once again.