Intermittent Family Leave Clarified in DOL Opinion Letter (1)

The Labor Department interprets federal law to allow family leave for a mother to attend special education committee meetings in one of three new opinion letters.

The employee can take intermittent, unpaid leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act because she’s attending the meetings to make care arrangements for a child with a serious health condition, the DOL’s Wage and Hour Division said.

The agency’s stance isn’t a “huge departure” from current law, but it does clarify an area of the FMLA that was less obvious to employers, said Sarah Platt, a shareholder with management firm Ogletree Deakins ...