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Family and Medical Leave Act Advisor

Serious Health Condition - Treatments to Prevent Incapacity

Would the condition likely result in a period of incapacity of more than three consecutive full calendar days without the treatments?

(For example, conditions such as cancer that requires chemotherapy, severe arthritis that requires physical therapy or kidney disease that requires dialysis.)

Return to Reasons for Leave.

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