Are You Required To Provide Light Duty for FMLA

An employee injured her shoulder at work while performing her vending driver duties.  She applied for workers' compensation benefits, but did not apply for FMLA leave.  Instead of taking FMLA leave, the employee elected to take light duty under her workers' compensation program.  While on light duty she was paid $3.23 less per hour than her regular wages.  The employee sued alleging that the company violated the FMLA by paying her less while she was on "FMLA light duty."

Premier One-day Employment Conference Scheduled to Help Business Owners, Managers, HR Professionals, Benefit Administrators, Trainers and Legal Council Stay on Top of Critical Employment Issues

**(HRCI) Recertification 5 General Credit Hours Available**    

The 2007 Iowa Employment Conference will be held on November 7 at the Cedar Rapids Marriott on Collins Road NE. from 8:15 a.m. until 4 p.m.  This one-day premier conference features powerful and informative concurrent sessions presented by leading human resource and training consultants, attorneys and benefit consultants on the most critical employment issues likely to affect Iowa employers in 2008.  During each concurrent session attendees will participate in lively discussions of practical approaches and new thinking on common employment problems, including:

If an employer (that is also the plan administrator) sends the notice of the right to elect COBRA coverage to a former employee, but the notice comes back to the employer as undeliverable. Is the employer relieved of any further obligation to deliver the notice, even though it has actual knowledge that the notice was not received?

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