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uestion: We have an employee who took four days off to tend to his daughter in the hospital after she received a C-section and another who wants to take three weeks off to assist her sibling going through chemotherapy. Would the absences in both scenarios fall under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)?
wer: It’s possible, but not likely, that these family care scenarios are covered by the FMLA. Let’s take a look at the first
one. The FMLA does allow an employee to take leave to care for a child with a serious health condition, but the child