HELP

mmurnahan

If an employee's dependent has chicken pox and she comes in with a doc note stating, "please excuse (employee) from work for 2 weeks, 14 days) is this FMLA? Chronic serious health condition? I'm a mother of two, and when my children had it (at different times of course) I found a sitter who would watch them so I could come to work.

LindaS

I think the problem you are having is you are looking at the diagnosis and NOT the medical facts surrounding the disgnosis. Under the federal FMLA, a serious health condition is defined as continuing treatment by a health care provider. This includes any one of the following...a period of incapacity of more than three consecutive calendar days that also involves treatment two or more times by a health care provider or treatment at least one time which results in a regimen of continuing treatment under the supervision of a health care provider..."

If these requirements are met, it would qualify regardless of the actual disgnosis.

For more assistance, you can go to [url]www.dol.gov[/url] for additional information.

Hope this helps.