Our soldiers may get fired, but their families are now allowed to go broke caring for them
This is part two of my previous post on the the raw deal many military families are receiving. I found this report by Sheppard Mullen on how the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was amended to protect military families.
Long story short, the act was amended to allow an employee to take up to 26 workweeks of leave to care for an injured or ill member of that employee’s immediate family who is a “covered service member in the military.” Actually this is awesome, considering how many of our soldiers are coming back seriously injured. However, one of the things folks don’t know about is that this leave is unpaid. It only protects the job- not the salary.
So, many of the soldiers are coming back to find themselves unemployed and if they happen to be injuried, their family members can care for them but must do it with no incoming coming into the household. This really sucks!
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