Administrative Tip:
If your company has an employee handbook, an easy and efficient way to comply with the general notice requirement is to take the text of the DOL's FMLA Poster and incorporate it into the employee handbook, adding to it any information about FMLA rules specific to your organization (i.e., rules regarding concurrency of paid leave, leave year calculation, etc.). Provide this handbook to all employees upon hire, and any time there is a specific request.
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Nothing precludes an employer from satisfying these notice requirements through one or more combined notices, as long at the requirements of each notice requirement are satisfied. For example, the designation notice is usually combined with the rights and responsibilities notice. And under some circumstances, the eligibility, rights and responsibilities and designation requirements can all be satisfied through a single notice.