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How Does an Employer Respond to an Employee Who Fails to Cooperate with the FMLA Second- or Third-Opinion Process (or Fails to Follow Call-in Procedures)?
Stop me if you’ve heard this one before. Russ, a bus driver, takes medical leave from work on 24 different occasions without following the employer’s call-in procedure, and then preemptively provides medical certification from a local chiropractor who is known to churn out FMLA medical certifications like a grandparent who generously dishes out candy to the grandkids. The third-party leave administrator (TPA) for the employer smelled a rat, sinc…
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