About Family Medical Leave

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows covered employees to take job protected unpaid leave or substitute earned/accrued paid leave. Typically, employees may take leave for up to 12 weeks in a 12-month period, although the specific timeframe depends upon your company's internal policy. Through FMLA, employees can take leave for their own serious health conditions, to care for qualified family members, or for birth, adoption, or foster placement matters without fear of losing their jobs. FMLA can be taken intermittently or in continuous blocks of time.

For EMPAQ^® purposes, FMLA claims may be defined in three ways:

• FMLA Concurrent Claims. These are approved FMLA claims that run concurrently with approved STD and/or workers' compensation claims.
• FMLA Non-Concurrent Claims. These are approved FMLA claims that do not run concurrently with approved STD and/or workers' compensation claims (i.e., a claim to care for a qualified family member, adoption, etc.). However, a non-concurrent FMLA claim may be considered under an organization's policy for incidental sick leave (paid or unpaid) and/or vacation/paid time off. The non-concurrent FMLA metrics will include all FMLA non-concurrent claims and/or workdays regardless of whether they were paid or unpaid.
• Total FMLA Claims. This is the total number of all approved FMLA claims, including those for employees working a reduced schedule and/or any claims that are approved for state FMLA leave even if they do not qualify for federal FMLA.

EMPAQ^® Metrics

EMPAQ^® metrics are ratios (i.e. numerators over denominators) that can be used to calculate the effectiveness of health and productivity management programs. They establish a consistent method for measuring cost, utilization and other performance issues.

EMPAQ^® FMLA Metrics

Click here for a copy of the EMPAQ^® Data Dictionary, which contains detailed definitions of all of the metrics, data elements and plan design questions.

There are 4 EMPAQ^® FMLA metrics:

Metric	Ratio	Explanation
Total FMLA Claims per 100 Covered Employees	Total FMLA Claims per 100 Covered Employees = Total Number of FMLA Claims Average Number of FMLA Covered Employees × 100	This metric calculates the number of FMLA claims per 100 covered employees for a defined period of time.
Total FMLA Lost Workdays per 100 Covered Employees	Total FMLA Lost Workdays per 100 Covered Employees = Total Number of FMLA Lost Workdays Average Number of FMLA Covered Employees × 100	This metric calculates the overall amount of time lost due to FMLA per 100 covered employees, for a defined period of time.
Non-Concurrent FMLA Lost Workdays per 100 Covered Employees	Non-Concurrent FMLA Lost Workdays per 100 Covered Employees = Number of Non-Concurrent FMLA Lost Workdays Average Number of FMLA Covered Employees × 100	This metric calculates the amount of time lost due to non-concurrent FMLA absences (intermittent and/or continuous) for a defined period of time by eliminating the influence of plan design, benefit levels or pay levels.
Non-Concurrent FMLA Claims per 100 Covered Employees	Non-Concurrent FMLA Claims per 100 Covered Employees = Number of Non-Concurrent FMLA Claims Average Number of FMLA Covered Employees × 100	This metric calculates the amount of time lost due to non-concurrent FMLA absences (intermittent and/or continuous) per 100 covered employees for a defined period of time.