{"id":1814,"date":"2025-01-28T14:39:15","date_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:39:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=1814"},"modified":"2025-01-28T14:38:04","modified_gmt":"2025-01-28T19:38:04","slug":"dol-issues-guidance-on-fmla-substitution-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/01\/28\/dol-issues-guidance-on-fmla-substitution-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"DOL Issues Guidance on FMLA Substitution Rule"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/US-DOL-1024x768.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1314\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/US-DOL-1024x768.png 1024w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/US-DOL-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/US-DOL-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/02\/US-DOL.png 1043w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>On January 14, 2025, the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued an opinion letter stating that employers cannot require employees to use their employer-provided paid time off such as vacation time while the employee is taking leave under the FMLA and receiving pay under a state or local PFML program.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Littler:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.littler.com\/publication-press\/publication\/dol-issues-opinion-letter-applicability-fmla-substitution-rule-when\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">DOL Issues Opinion Letter on Applicability of the FMLA Substitution Rule When Employee on FMLA is Receiving PFML Benefits<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jackson Lewis:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilityleavelaw.com\/2025\/01\/articles\/fmla\/the-dol-issues-new-guidance-on-the-relationship-between-the-fmla-and-state-paid-family-medical-leave-programs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">The DOL Issues New Guidance On The Relationship Between The FMLA and State Paid Family Medical Leave Programs<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On January 14, 2025, the US Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division issued an opinion letter stating that employers cannot require employees to use their employer-provided paid time off such as vacation time while the employee is taking leave under the FMLA and receiving pay under a state or local PFML program. Littler:DOL Issues [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1314,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[78,114,115],"class_list":["post-1814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-dol","tag-fmla","tag-pfml"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1814"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1815,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1814\/revisions\/1815"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}