Senior Living Handbook 2018

Eligibility Requirements: To be eligible for FMLA leave, the team member must have completed twelve (12) months of total service with HHHunt and have worked at least twelve hundred and fifty (1,250) hours in the twelve (12) months prior to taking the leave. Hours of work will be determined according to the principles established in the Fair Labor Standards Act for determining compensable hours. Reasons for Taking FMLA Leave: Eligible team members may take Family and Medical Leave for one or more of the following reasons: a. The birth of the team member’s child or to care for such child b. A child’s placement with the team member for adoption or foster care (requires legal action) c. To care for a team member’s spouse, child, or parent (but not parents-in- law) who has a serious health condition (includes a child 18 years of age or over who is incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability) d. The team member’s own serious health condition that prevents them from performing the essential functions of the job e. Because of any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the team member’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military service member on active duty (or has been notified of an impending federal call or order to active duty) in support of a contingency operation or is being deployed to a foreign country as a member of the Regular Armed Forces f. To care for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness if the team member is the spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin of the service member. Leave for birth or placement of an adopted or foster child must be taken within twelve (12) months of the birth or placement. Leave for a serious health condition means an illness, injury, impairment of physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care or continuing treatment by a health care provider. Team members are eligible to take FMLA leave because of a qualifying exigency when the covered military member in the Regular Armed Forces is under a call or order to active duty during deployment of the member to a foreign country; or is on covered active duty or call to active duty status during deployment of the member to a foreign country under a federal call or order to active duty in support of a contingency operation described below as either a member of the reserve components (Army National Guard of the United States, Army Reserve, Navy Reserve, Marine Corps Reserve, Air National Guard of the United States, Air Force Reserve and Coast Guard Reserve) or a retired member of the Regular Armed Forces or Reserve. A team member whose family member is on covered active duty during deployment of the member to a foreign country as a member of a regular component of the Armed Forces is also eligible to take leave because of a qualifying exigency. Leave for a qualifying exigency that otherwise meets the requirements of the FMLA may be taken for the following purposes: short-notice

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