FMLA Fraud in Energy Operations: The Hidden Crisis Draining Your Budget and Compromising Safety
The statistics reveal a troubling reality: 66% of HR professionals acknowledge widespread FMLA abuse in their organizations. In energy operations, this fraud creates problems that extend far beyond lost productivity. When safety-critical positions sit empty due to fraudulent medical claims, operational integrity suffers and people can get hurt. Energy companies face a unique vulnerability to […]
Protecting Your Business from FMLA Fraud
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides working families balance to their lives when their circumstances take a turn. Whether it’s caring for new life in the household—such as a newborn or a foster child—or to care for an ailing relative, the 1993 act protects employees from being terminated from their jobs when they […]
If Your Company is the Victim of FMLA Fraud, You Better Do Your Research
The Family Medical Legal Act of 1993 serves to protect an employee’s job in the case of family or personal illness or emergency. Specifically, it ensures long term, full time employees “12 work weeks of unpaid leave during any 12-month period to attend to the serious health condition of the employee, parent, spouse or child, […]