Welcome to "Adminstering Employee Leave"

This course is designed for those who want to learn about the different kinds of leave and employee scheduling.

You will also learn about the requirements of authorizing each kind of leave and how to successfully administer leave for classified and professional staff.

This course reviews eligibility for coverage under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and disability leave, and explores examples of existing, effective departmental policies.

• Course Objectives
• Important Terms
• Authorization
• Annual Leave
• Establishing the Sick Leave Certification Requirement
• Attendance: Recommended Model Procedure
• Parental Leave
• Family Medical Leave Act
• Shared Leave
• Bereavement Leave
• Other Leaves
• The Challenges Of Flexible Scheduling
• Overtime Regulations
• Resources

There are 3 quizzes included in this course. In order to receive credit for taking this course, you must complete the quizzes.

There are limitations to the tool used to design the POD Online quizzes, and currently we are unable to automatically verify the correctness of your responses. Therefore, when taking the quiz, you may want to print the quiz after you've entered your responses and before you've clicked the "Submit" button. Then, you can compare your answers with those on the answer page.

Your responses to the quizzes will not be reported to anyone.

At the end of this course you will find a link to an evaluation form. Your feedback is important to us, please take the time to complete this form.

You may visit this course as often as you like. Access is limited to those individuals with UW NetID.

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Section 1: Objectives
Section 2: Important Terms
Section 3: Authorization
Section 4: Annual Leave
Section 5: Certification Requirement
Section 6: Attendance
Section 7: Parental Leave
Section 8: Family Medical Leave Act
Section 9: Shared Leave
Section 10: Bereavement Leave
Section 11: Other Leaves
Section 12: Flexible Scheduling
Section 13: Overtime Regulations
Section 14: Resources
Section 15: Conclusion