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标题：Legal Digest: Family and Medical Leave Act Amendments - New Military Leave Entitlements New Military Leave Entitlements
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作者：Richard G. Schott
期刊名称：The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
印刷版ISSN：0014-5688
电子版ISSN：1937-4674
出版年度：2010
期号：6
页码：1-6
语种：English
出版社：The Federal Bureau of Investigation
摘要：As we settle into this new decade, our country’s military embarks on its tenth year of the mission to combat terrorism in Iraq and Afghanistan. With that commitment comes immense sacrifice, by both military personnel and their families and other loved ones. It also comes with an expense to those who employ these modern-day patriots and those close to them. Among the sacrifices required by these employers is the legal obligation to be without certain employees because of specified military obligations and other situations brought on by military service. The 2009 amendments to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (2008 NDAA),1 which became effective on January 16, 2009, add to this obligation. The 2009 amendments were expanded again by amendments contained in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 (2010 NDAA).2 This article briefly discusses the provisions contained in the original 1993 FMLA legislation;3 and it then scrutinizes the provisions contained in the new amendments, which create new categories of FMLA leave and the concurrent obligations imposed on employers who must recognize this leave entitlement.