{"id":2317,"date":"2025-10-29T15:18:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:18:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2317"},"modified":"2025-10-29T15:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T19:17:30","slug":"dol-clarifies-how-to-calculate-fmla-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/10\/29\/dol-clarifies-how-to-calculate-fmla-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"DOL Clarifies How to Calculate FMLA Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act-FMLA-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1905\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act-FMLA-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act-FMLA-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act-FMLA-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>The US Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division issued a new opinion letter on Sept. 30, 2025,&nbsp;explaining&nbsp;that employers should calculate FMLA leave hours based on an employee\u2019s actual, normally scheduled workweek \u2014 which includes any mandatory overtime hours and excludes any additional voluntary hours.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The DOL\u2019s guidance is helpful for all employers faced with calculating the hourly equivalent of an employee\u2019s 12 weeks of FMLA leave.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jackson Lewis:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jacksonlewis.com\/insights\/dol-clarifies-how-employers-should-calculate-fmla-leave-overtime-other-non-traditional-schedules\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">DOL Clarifies How Employers Should Calculate FMLA Leave for Overtime + Other Non-Traditional Schedules<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US Department of Labor (DOL) Wage and Hour Division issued a new opinion letter on Sept. 30, 2025,&nbsp;explaining&nbsp;that employers should calculate FMLA leave hours based on an employee\u2019s actual, normally scheduled workweek \u2014 which includes any mandatory overtime hours and excludes any additional voluntary hours. The DOL\u2019s guidance is helpful for all employers faced [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[291,78,114,289,290],"class_list":["post-2317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-calculation","tag-dol","tag-fmla","tag-us-department-of-labor","tag-wage-and-hour-division"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317","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=2317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2318,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2317\/revisions\/2318"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}