Motivating and Developing Staff

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More about Military Qualifying Exigency and
Military Caregiver Leaves
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• New qualifying exigency leave is one of the
  following eight situations where
• An immediate family member
• Is on or receives a federal call to active duty
  status
• In support of a contingency operation
• As a member of the reserves or a retired member
  of the regular armed forces or reserves

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• Short-notice deployment activities (limited to
  seven calendar days of FMLA leave) to address
  any issues arising from the impending call or
  order to active duty if the military
  servicemember receives seven or less calendar
  days notice prior to the date of deployment

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• Military events and related activities to attend
  any official military-sponsored ceremony,
  program, or event or certain family support or
  assistance programs and informational briefings
  related to the call to or active duty

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• Childcare and school activities of the military
  servicemembers child to make alternative
  childcare arrangements, to provide childcare on
  an urgent, immediate need basis, to enroll in or
  transfer schools or day care facilities, and/or
  to attend meetings with school or daycare staff

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• Financial and legal arrangements to make or
  update financial or legal arrangements to address
  the military servicemembers absence and/or to
  act as the military servicemembers
  representative before a federal, state, or local
  agency for purposes of obtaining, arranging, or
  appealing military service benefits

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• Counseling activities to attend counseling
  provided the need arises from the call to or
  active duty status, it is provided by someone
  other than a healthcare provider, and it is for
  the employee, the military servicemember, or the
  servicemembers child

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• Rest and recuperation activities (limited to five
  workdays per instance) to spend time with the
  military servicemember who is granted short-term,
  temporary rest and recuperation leave

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• Post-deployment activities to attend
  military-sponsored official ceremonies or
  programs or to address issues that arise from the
  death of the military servicemember while on
  active duty status and/or

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• Additional activities to address other issues
  provided the need arises out of the military
  servicemembers call to or active duty status and
  the University and supervisor agree that the
  leave is considered qualifying exigency and upon
  the timing and duration of the leave.

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• New military caregiver leave is to care for a
  covered servicemember, i.e.
• A current member of or member on temporary
  disability retired list of the Armed Forces,
  including the National Guard or Reserves
• Who has a serious injury or illness incurred in
  the line of duty on active duty
• For which s/he is undergoing medical treatment,
  recuperation, therapy, or otherwise in outpatient
  status

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