| An Introduction to the Family Medical Leave Act
An Introduction to the Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is the first online course offered through the MSU's School of Labor and Industrial Relations. FMLA is one of the most challenging employment laws for employers to administer; especially now that it has been amended by the National Defense Act.
Recently, the FMLA was amended to permit a spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin to take up to 26 work weeks of leave to care for a member of the Armed Forces who was injured in the line of duty while serving in an authorized conflict. This online course will provide you and the supervisors and managers in your organization with the information you need to effectively administer the Family Medical Leave Act.
Who is this course for?
This course is designed for managers, supervisors, human resource managers, and others who have the task of administering FMLA.
Introduction
In this online course, you will explore the fundamentals of the FMLA to enable you to comply with the Act. You will learn from real-world scenarios, gain knowledge of key concepts including the new National Defense Authorization Act, and engage in practice applications of the FMLA through short learning activities. In addition, you will gain familiarity with valuable resources you will need to refer to again and again.
Overview of topics
- purpose of the FMLA
- covered employers
- eligible employees
- notice requirements
- recordkeeping
- enforcement
Instructor
Dr. Tina Riley is an Assistant Professor in the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University, one of the top human resources/labor relations graduate schools in the country. She has served as Director of the Human Resources Education and Training Center (HRetc), Associate Director for Outreach, and Director of Admissions and External Relations.
In addition, she has taught hundreds of human resource professionals, operations managers, business owners, and front-line supervisors in a variety of practitioner workshops. These workshops have focused on employment law, communication skills, and supervisory skills, just to name a few. In addition, she is a CAPT-qualified administrator of the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Her primary program, The Certified Human Resources Specialist, provides professionals with a solid foundation in human resources management.
Dr. Riley earned a PhD in Higher Adult, and Lifelong Education with a concentration in communications and a Master of Labor Relations and Human Resources Degree, both from Michigan State University. These degrees reflect her strong commitment to lifelong learning.
Length
This course is estimated to take 3.0 hours to complete.
Continuing Education Credits
This course has been pre-approved for 3 continuing education credits towards recertification for the Certified Human Resources Specialist and the Certified Workers' Compensation Professional offered through the School of Labor and Industrial Relations at Michigan State University (MSU). In addition, this course has been pre-approved for .3 MSU CEUs.
An Introduction to the Family Medical Leave Act has also been approved for 3 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR Recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org. |
