Northeast Alabama Community College complies with the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which allows eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave during a twelvemonth period for one or more of the following reasons:

• the birth and care of a newborn child of the employee;

• the placement with the employee of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care;

• to care for a spouse, son, daughter, or parent with a serious health condition;

• to take medical leave when the employee is unable to work because of a serious health condition; or

• for qualifying exigencies arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is on active duty or call to active duty status as a member of the National Guard or Reserves in support of a contingency operation.

The FMLA also includes a special leave entitlement that permits eligible employees to take up to 26 weeks of leave to care for a covered servicemember during a single 12-month period.

The information linked below provides details of employee rights and responsibilities under the FMLA. This information is posted on bulletin boards located in the mailroom vestibule and beside the Office of the Dean of Administrative Services on the NACC campus.

 FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT Information (pdf) 
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FMLA details are also published on the Alabama Community College System website under documentation for State Board Policy 611.01 Leaves without Pay and are included in the NACC Faculty and Staff Handbook. Additional FMLA facts may be accessed through the Department of Labor website by visiting http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs28.pdf and http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs28a.pdf.

If you have questions regarding your rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act or to report an absence for one or more of the reasons noted above, please contact one of the following personnel: