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Wage and Hour Division (WHD)

Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Poster

All covered employers are required to display and keep displayed a poster prepared by the Department of Labor summarizing the major provisions of The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and telling employees how to file a complaint. The poster must be displayed in a conspicuous place where employees and applicants for employment can see it. A poster must be displayed at all locations even if there are no eligible employees.

A copy of the poster prepared by the Department (WH 1420) is available for your information or for posting in the workplace.

To print a copy please follow these instructions:

  1. The file is only available in PDF format. In order to view and/or print PDF documents you must have a PDF viewer (e.g., Adobe® Acrobat® Reader® v5 or later) available on your workstation.
  2. Click on the link for the FMLA poster and wait for it to load into the viewer.
  3. To print, click on the printer icon within Acrobat Reader. Do not use the browser's print feature.

FMLA Final Rule to Implement Statutory Amendments – February 6, 2013

Several of the changes to the FMLA regulations made in this Final Rule, including military caregiver leave for a veteran, qualifying exigency leave for parental care, and the special leave calculation method for flight crew employees, will not be effective until the effective date of the Final Rule on March 8, 2013. As the Department noted in the preamble to the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking, however, some of the provisions of the FY 2010 NDAA and the Airline Flight Crew Technical Corrections Act, such as the expansion of qualifying exigency leave to families of members of the Regular Armed Forces and the special eligibility hours of service requirement for flight crew employees, were effective as of the enactment date of those statutes. 77 FR 8962 (Feb. 15, 2012).

You may start using the new poster provided above immediately, or you may still use the old FMLA poster, available here, through March 7, 2013.