The federal government recently expanded FMLA benefits to give employees time to care for family members injured during military duty. And new regulations may require employees to calculate military leave entitlement differently than they do for other types of leave.

Employees are entitled to 12 weeks of traditional FMLA each year. Employers have the option of measuring the “year” based on the calendar year, a 12-month period starting the day the employee’s hired or a rolling 12-month period that starts the first time an employee takes leave.

But for military leave, the regulations that went into effect Jan. 16 say employers must use the rolling method, regardless of how other FMLA entitlement is calculated.

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