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2.5 Workweek: The number of hours an employee is regularly scheduled to work each <br />• week. <br />2.6 Eligible Employees: Employees who have been employed with Lee County for at <br />least twelve (12) months and who have worked at least 1,250 hours during the previous <br />twelve-month period are entitled to a total of twelve (12) work weeks or 480 hours, paid <br />or unpaid, leave during any "rolling" twelve-month period measured backwards from the <br />date any employee used as FMLA for one or more of the following reasons: <br />A. For the birth or placement for adoption or foster care of a child and to care for the <br />child provided the leave is taken within a 12-month period following such event. <br />This applies to both parents. When both parents are employed by the County, <br />they are limited to a total of twelve weeks of leave per twelve months. <br />B. For the employee to care for the employee's child, spouse, or parent where that <br />child, spouse, or parent has a serious health condition; or <br />C. Because the employee has a serious health condition that makes the employee <br />unable to perform the functions of the employee's position. <br />Leave without pay beyond the twelve-week period for eligible employees and for <br />employees not covered under FMLA will be administered under Section F-8 of this <br />• resolution entitled "Leave Without Pay (Leave not covered under Family Medical Leave <br />Act)". Under that provision, employees must pay for health benefits coverage. <br />2.7 Military FMLA Leave: Employees who have been employed with Lee County for at <br />least twelve (12) months and who have worked at least 1,250 hours during the previous <br />twelve month period are entitled to Military FMLA leave that would allow a spouse, son, <br />daughter, parent or next of kin to take up to twenty-six (26) workweeks of leave to care <br />for a "member of the armed forces, including a member of the National Guard or <br />Reserves, who is undergoing medical treatment, recuperation, or therapy or is <br />otherwise in outpatient status, or is otherwise on the temporary disability retired list, for <br />a serious injury or illness. <br />This type of leave also permits an employee to take FMLA leave for "any qualifying <br />exigency arising out of the fact that that the spouse, son, daughter or parent of the <br />employee is on active duty (or has been notified of an impending call or order to active <br />duty) in the armed forces in support of a contingency operation." <br />• <br />3.0 PROCEDURE/RULE <br />F-4 Family and Medical Leave 2 <br />