please help...

repost from teacher bored, need help before tomorrow. TIA


BTW: i am nyc teacher

As of tomorrow i am going out on childcare leave until Jan. Does anyone know if before the child care leave, can i take the FMLA?

i would like to keep my benefits for a little while longer while my babies are getting a lot of services under my ins.

We will get ins. under my DH but if possible i would like to do FMLA then do the childcare leave for the other month?

any quick advice?

Re: please help...

I don't have an answer for you but here is a link to the U.S. Department of Labor you should be able to find your answer there.

Re: please help...

Your employer is responsible for determining whether the leave is designated as FMLA leave or not. Your employer has to notify you as to whether the leave is FMLA leave. Have you filled out the FMLA forms? What has you employer told you about your leave? Does your contract say anything?

Re: please help...

THanks for the replies. my payroll secretary thought i would be able to borrow20 days then go on FMLA. It turns out that i can't. So, i can take fmla but that only brings me to nov. 26 and i don't want to do that b/c my babies just came home after being in the hospital for over 3mos.

So today when we talked we figured out that i could take a leave of absence unitl about Jan. but she never said anything about FMLA. Before i asked her i wanted to know more this way i didn't sound like an idiot.

when i called her back to ask when my ins. would stop she said the tomorrow the 30th so now i am flipping. i know the paper work is not in yet but my son has app'ts tomorrow and we aren't on my husbands yet.

Can you tell i am freaking out?! We also have nursing care that i need to figure out...shoot me!