PART 4 EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
time employee, you’ll need to mark the employee as working partial days
during the leave. Mark Partial next to the What type of days will be taken
during this leave? field in the FMLA Initiation window. The How many
hours each day will be worked during partial days? field will be activated.
Enter the number of hours the employee does not work in a normal
workday. The system will correctly calculate the hours of FMLA leave
actually used by that employee.Varying work weeks The work week schedule, plus holidays, is set up
in FMLA Calendar, which is a benefit preference. Although specific starting
and ending dates for an FMLA year can be entered for an employee, the
FMLA Calendar settings can’t be changed. All employees in your company
must work the same number of days in the week for FMLA to be calculated
correctly.Advance scheduling Human Resources’s FMLA system cannot
calculate more than one FMLA year in advance, regardless of the type of
FMLA year set up in Benefit Preferences.Initiating an employee FMLA leave
Use the FMLA Initiation window to initiate an employee FMLA leave. For
example, an employee can use FMLA leave to care for a newborn child or
an ill family member.Before you use the FMLA Initiation window, you must set up your FMLA
preferences in the Benefit Preferences window. For more information about
setting up FMLA preferences, refer to Setting up benefit preferences in
Chapter 7, “Benefit Setup,” of the Human Resources Installation and Setup
manual.