{"id":19688,"date":"2019-09-23T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2019-09-23T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/?p=19688"},"modified":"2019-09-25T13:41:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T17:41:13","slug":"parent-protections-fmla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/parent-protections-fmla\/","title":{"rendered":"Parent Protections: FMLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding-bottom:20px; padding-top:10px;\" class=\"hupso-share-buttons\"><!-- Hupso Share Buttons - https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/ --><a class=\"hupso_pop\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hupso.com\/share\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/buttons\/gallery\/share-button-gray.png\" style=\"border:0px\" alt=\"Share\" \/><\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\">var hupso_services=new Array(\"Twitter\",\"Facebook\",\"Google Plus\",\"Pinterest\",\"Linkedin\",\"StumbleUpon\",\"Digg\",\"Reddit\",\"Bebo\",\"Delicious\");var hupso_icon_type = \"labels\";var hupso_background=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_border=\"#FFFFFF\";var hupso_image_folder_url = \"\";var hupso_twitter_via=\"wrightslaw\";var hupso_url=\"\";var hupso_title=\"Parent%20Protections%3A%20FMLA\";<\/script><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/static.hupso.com\/share\/js\/share.js\"><\/script><!-- Hupso Share Buttons --><\/div><p>Tina:&nbsp; I work for a global corporation that employees thousands of people but the facility in which I am located is very automated and employees under 50 people within a 75 mile range, therefore I am told that I am not eligible once my vacation and personal time runs out to use FMLA for intermittent absences for unforeseen episodes we have from our son who is severely autistic, has mild cerebral palsy, epileptic, and intermittent explosive disorder. I have worked here for 18 yrs. and my son is 17yrs. old and never had to use a lot of my personal time for him until this year where we are having aggression and self-infliction issues. Now my time is close to being used up and I&#8217;m told I do not have FMLA to protect me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina:&nbsp; I work for a global corporation that employees thousands of people but the facility in which I am located is very automated and employees under 50 people within a <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/parent-protections-fmla\/\">Continue Reading \u2192<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1342],"tags":[1354],"class_list":["post-19688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-question","tag-p"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19688"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25043,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19688\/revisions\/25043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wrightslaw.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}