MCO 12630.3 governs implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act for specified Marine Corps civilian employees.
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It addresses FMLA eligibility, leave entitlement, serious health conditions, health care providers, and the substitution of paid time off. It requires eligible employees to meet service requirements and establishes conditions for unpaid leave and related benefits.
Applies to: To provide policy and procedures on implementing the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for civilian employee of Headquarters Marine Corps; Headquarters Battalion, Henderson Hall; Marine Barracks, 8th and I Streets, Washington, DC; and the Marine Corps Institute.
Employees eligible for unpaid family and medical leave are employees covered under a competitive or excepted service appointment and non-appropriated fund employees. (paragraph 3)
Employees serving under an intermittent appointment or temporary appointment with a time limitation of 1 year or less are not eligible for the FMLA. (paragraph 3)
An employee must invoke his or her own entitlement to leave under the FMLA, a supervisor may not require an employee to invoke entitlement. (paragraph 4)
An employee may elect to substitute paid time off; e.g., annual leave, sick leave, compensatory time off, or credit hours under a flexible work schedule for leave without pay under the FMLA. (paragraph 4)
The FMLA defines a "serious health condition" as "an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care in a hospital, hospice or residential medical care facility; or continuing treatment by a health care provider." (paragraph 4)