b'Common Situations:What Should I Do:Adoption:AfemaleemployeeinformsyouthatsheandherGood: Maintain all of the required posted notices to employees husband are adopting a child from a foreign country and requestswhichmaybefoundthroughtheU.S.DepartmentofLabor FMLA leave to bond with the child.The employee gives 15 dayswebsite:www.dol.gov.Grantleavewhereappropriate,and notice.Unless the employee can explain that the need to leaveconsult counsel in the event you plan to deny or delay leave.within 15 days was unforeseeable, you may delay the leave until the 30-day notice period has passed.That said, employers shouldBetter:Maintainrequirednoticesandconsultcounselwhere give employees the benefit of the doubt as to the foreseeability ofappropriate.Maintain a posted policy of the person to whom the need for leave.employees should report the need for leave so that requests for leave are not made to supervisors or other employees who are KeyEmployeeLeave:YoursmallcompanysCFOplanstonot trained to know the importance of a request.take 12 weeks leave when his wife gives birth to their first child. While you wholeheartedly support his family commitment, theBest: In addition to the suggestions above, maintain an employee company will not be able to survive without a replacement if thehandbook which sets out the companys plan for leave, including: CFO is gone that long because you, as the owner, must travel(1) whether leave is paid in part or in full, (2) whether employees to China to meet with manufacturers.If permanent replacementare required to use sick days during FMLA leave; (3) providing is unavoidable and the restoration of the CFO to his position willa form of request for leave; (4) explaining the requirement of cause the company substantial and grievous economic injury,30 days notice where the need for leave is foreseeable; and you may terminate the CFO instead of reinstating him to his prior(5) designating a particular person within the organization for position. Before utilizing this option, however, please consult withemployees to make requests to.counsel.Care of Adult Child:An employee reports that she needs to take leave to care for her college-age child who has been in a serious automobile accident.While the FMLA provides for care of a child with a serious health condition, for children over 18, you are only required to allow leave if the child is incapable of caring for himself due to a mental or physical disability and has a serious health condition for which he needs care.90'