With children heading back to school where mono and other serious illnesses may be transmitted more readily, employee requests for Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to care for sick children will once again increase. In reviewing such requests, employers must now take into account the U.S. Department of Labor’s clarification of who stands in loco parentis to a child. (In loco parentis is Latin for “in the place of a parent”).
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