Legal Question in Medical Leave in Washington

Re: family medical leave act

FMLA provides that employees may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave IF:

First, the employer has 50 or more employees during 20 or more weeks of the year.

Second, the employee has worked for the employer for the last 12 months and has worked at least 1250 hours during those months.

Also,the leave must be taken either because the employee requires leave for medical reasons, because the employee withes to care for a member of his or her immediate family who is ill, or because of the arrival of an infant into the employee's family (whether by birth or adoption).