Just thought I would share this as It is something i never knew. Plus this forum needs any new thread as its God awful dead!!
Anyway, if you go out on disability that counts against your 480 hours of allowed fmla a year. A friend of mine just got denied recently based on this. He was out August to March for surgery on his back. He just got hospitalized for 4 days recently and didn't want to burn what time he had left to excuse it. He therefore filed fmla on himself. He was denied by HR claiming he extinguished his 480 hours from August- Nov. Even though he was on disability it still counts as fmla leave even though the driver never filed for it.
Anyway, if you go out on disability that counts against your 480 hours of allowed fmla a year. A friend of mine just got denied recently based on this. He was out August to March for surgery on his back. He just got hospitalized for 4 days recently and didn't want to burn what time he had left to excuse it. He therefore filed fmla on himself. He was denied by HR claiming he extinguished his 480 hours from August- Nov. Even though he was on disability it still counts as fmla leave even though the driver never filed for it.