FAMILY RELATED ISSUES

Family Related Issues

Family Related Issues

The matter between a parent and child under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

The Law on Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 was created to assist employees in balancing their work and family responsibilities by allowing them to apply for unpaid leave under reasonable conditions, for certain family and medical reasons. The Family and Medical Leave act gives certain employees up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave during the duration of twelve months with job security. It also requires a license for the maintenance of the employee benefits under the group health plan. The FMLA applies to all public and private employers with fifty or more employees. These employers must provide the employee entitled to request up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave during a period of twelve months, any of the following reasons:

Birth and care of the newborn child of the employee.

Placing a child for adoption or foster care in the employee's home.

Care of an immediate family member (spouse, child or parent, does not include care laws) in serious health condition.

Inability of the employee to work due to a serious health condition.

Parents certainly have a responsibility towards their biological child and must even take care of him or her under the FLMA Act. On the same hand, child also has the responsibility towards the parents under the FMLA Act. This particular statement does not make any sense which states whether it actually matters for a parent who literally had nothing to do with a biological child in order for the child to take advantage of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to care for that parent. If the child is not taking care of the parents and then suddenly decides to look after them under the FMLA Act, so it is not a very large favour from the child. Both parents and, child have responsibilities for each other, and, they cannot avoid it. If a parent has not taken a strong care of the child, but it does not mean that he will take revenge from the parents when they are going to get old. It totally depends on the child that what kind of attitude he or she will have towards the parents. The child might not take revenge, or, they might take care of the parents despite the bitter history they had with their parents. However, principally and especially under the FMLA Act, both children and parents need to take reasonable care of themselves. In this particular case, Tony realized his obligation towards his father who was an old-aged man and was admitted in a nursing home because of the poor health. The attitude of this father was very poor towards him when he was very young, but still Tony decided to bring him home in order to look after his health. Therefore, the statement that whether parents certainly have a responsibility towards their biological child and must even take care of him or her under ...