{"id":86,"date":"2025-09-05T15:18:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T22:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/?page_id=86"},"modified":"2026-06-27T10:20:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T17:20:33","slug":"returning-to-work","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/fmla-and-pfml\/family-and-medical-leave-act-fmla\/returning-to-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Returning to work after FMLA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>This page applies to all staff, academic personnel, and student employees.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When you are ready to return to work from your leave of absence, contact your manager to discuss your department\u2019s return-to-work process.<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Same or equivalent job<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The FMLA guarantees that you can return to either your same job or an equivalent position, as determined by the University. \u201cEquivalent\u201d is defined as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Same or substantially similar responsibilities and status<\/li>\n<li>Same general level of skill and authority<\/li>\n<li>Identical pay<\/li>\n<li>Identical benefits<\/li>\n<li>Same general work schedule at the same (or nearby) location<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information on FMLA&#8217;s employment guarantee when returning to work from a FMLA-covered leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":0,"parent":67,"menu_order":70,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"no","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"class_list":["post-86","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/86\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/67"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hr.uw.edu\/time-absence\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}