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Fitness for Duty Certification: FMLA

By Debra Reilly on August 27, 2009

Posted in CFRA, FMLA

The U.S. Department of Labor, in its Family and Medical Leave Act Advisor, recently clarified what an employer may require of an employee seeking to return to work from an illness. If the employer requires, the employee must provide a medical certification of the employee’s fitness to return to work if the FMLA…

Throughout her 30-year legal career, Debra L. Reilly has conducted over 900 internal workplace investigations for various counties, municipalities (including police departments and fire departments), water districts, sanitation districts, transportation authorities, public and private elementary schools (K-12), private and public colleges and universities, the United States Postal Service (holding a “sensitive” security clearance by the Postal Inspector’s Office), and a multitude of private sector employers . Debra has conducted employment investigations throughout the United States and California. She has testified in depositions, arbitrations, and trial concerning the findings of her investigations. Given her legal training and litigation experience representing both management and employees, Ms. Reilly’s investigations are impartial, objective, and thorough. Ms. Reilly has also testified as an expert witness in Human Resources standard practices in conducting harassment and discrimination investigations, as well as Human Resources standard practices in conducting reasonable accommodation assessments of disabled employees and engaging in the interactive process.