Section 18 ?Fitness-for-Duty? Report

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

Upon the employee’s return on or before exhaustion of the 12-week benefit, the employee must be returned to the same position or an equivalent position with equivalent pay, benefits, and other terms and conditions of employment. 29 U.S.C. § 2614(a); 29 C.F.R. §§ 825.214 and 825.215. While an employer can require the employee to provide a “fitness-for-duty” report from the employee’s health care provider before the return...