| B01 — Employer category unknown. Answered—text boundary. |
Private count/commerce rules differ from public-agency and school coverage. C014–C019; S001(4), S003 §§.104, .108, .600. |
Generic legal category and employment predicates absent. |
“Any employer” or “any financially affected worker” is covered. |
Read the precise public definition for the unresolved employer category, without inspecting an organization. |
| B02 — Count/workweeks unknown. Answered—text boundary. |
≥50 each working day in ≥20 calendar workweeks, current or preceding year; payroll, leave, part-time and partial-week rules apply. C018, C024–C025; §§.104–.105. |
Count, qualifying weeks and continuing relationships absent. |
FTE totals, one busy day, or one payroll snapshot proves coverage. |
Revisit §.105’s exact counting clause relevant to the generic counting issue. |
| B03 — Territorial employment unknown. Answered—text boundary. |
§.105(b) limits included employment to the stated U.S./DC/territorial scope. C024; S003. |
Employment location and applicable legal system absent. |
U.S. ownership alone makes all overseas workers count. |
Read any indispensable generic territorial application provision; other jurisdictions remain separate. |
| B04 — Worksite/distance unknown. Answered—text boundary. |
Reporting/assignment, home-work and joint-site rules precede the surface-route 75-mile test. C035–C036; §.111. |
Worksite structure, assignment, routes, joint tenure absent. |
Residence is automatically the site, or distance is a straight-line radius. |
Read §.111(a)’s relevant generic work arrangement and (b)’s measurement rule. |
| B05 — Tenure/hours unknown. Answered—text boundary; counting partial. |
Ordinary ≥12 months and ≥1,250 preceding-12-month hours are cumulative, subject to exceptions. C029, C032–C034. |
Service, actual hours, start date; complete specialized FLSA counting rules. |
Salary, full-time label, or 12 months alone proves eligibility. |
Read the exact Part 785/§207 clause needed for the unresolved generic type of time. |
| B06 — Prior break at seven years. Unresolved at exact boundary. |
Selected glossary and eligibility clauses use differing “more than”/“or more” wording. C030; §§.102, .110(b). |
Authoritative reconciliation and any actual break absent. |
Automatically disregard or automatically count exactly-seven-year-separated service. |
Seek a readable official generic interpretation or amendatory clarification addressing that wording. |
| B07 — Military service/other absence. Partial. |
USERRA-covered absence and specified written rehire agreements receive stated treatment; special federal service clauses differ. C031–C033, C012. |
USERRA coverage, agreement predicate and federal category absent. |
Every absence earns tenure and hours credit, or all military service waives hours. |
Read narrowly relevant generic USERRA service/return provisions or the applicable federal service clause. |
| B08 — Integrated-employer issue. Answered—text boundary. |
Totality test and four identified factors govern combined treatment. C020; §.104(c). |
Common management/control/operations facts absent. |
Common ownership alone establishes aggregation. |
Read official generic interpretation of §.104(c) if a particular legal factor remains unclear. |
| B09 — Joint-employer issue. Answered—text boundary. |
Joint status, dual counting, primary obligations and secondary duties are separately specified. C021–C022, C036; §§.106, .111(a)(3). |
Control, assignment and relationship predicates absent. |
A staffing/PEO label resolves all obligations or counts every client’s workers. |
Read the precise generic §.106 responsibility clause; do not inspect an actual service contract. |
| B10 — Successor issue. Answered—text boundary. |
Continuity-factor totality governs; qualifying predecessor service/hours can count. C023; §.107. |
Continuity facts and unresolved liability law absent. |
A name change, purchase label or lack of claim notice conclusively decides coverage. |
Read an official generic successor interpretation if needed; litigation merits remain held. |
| B11 — Public/federal/school category. Partial. |
Employer-size exceptions do not erase employee conditions; federal Title I/II/CAA allocation and school categories matter. C019, C026–C028, C037. |
Actual category and complete specialized administrative rules absent. |
All public employees use identical DOL rules or all school staff are instructional. |
Read the narrow applicable Title II/CAA or §§.600–.604 provision as a separate component. |
| B12 — Spouse/parent relationship unknown. Answered—text boundary. |
Marriage-place validity and defined parent/in-loco-parentis rules apply; parent-in-law exclusion remains. C040–C041. |
Relationship and applicable marriage-law predicates absent. |
Ordinary use of “spouse” or “parent” proves the legal category. |
Read only indispensable generic marriage or relationship law for the unresolved category. |
| B13 — Adult child/in loco parentis. Partial interpretation/application. |
Adult child requires disability and self-care incapacity; in-loco-parentis does not require biology/legal status, with DOL’s bounded care-or-support explanation. C042–C045; S031. |
Actual age/function/parental-role facts; complete interpretive history absent. |
Any disabled adult or supportive relative automatically qualifies. |
Obtain a readable current official generic in-loco-parentis interpretation; retain its legal status. |
| B14 — Birth/adoption/foster placement. Answered—text boundary. |
Healthy-child category, event-based expiry, required pre-placement absence and foster State-action conditions differ. C047, C057; §§.120–.122. |
Placement category, State action, event and remaining entitlement absent. |
Any informal childcare arrangement is a placement, or serious illness is required for bonding. |
Read the relevant generic placement definition and §.120 or .121 clause. |
| B15 — Own serious condition. Answered—text boundary. |
Serious-condition route plus inability to work or perform an essential function is required. C046, C058, C080–C091. |
Legal condition predicates, functions and certification facts absent. |
A diagnosis/disability label alone establishes leave. |
Read §§.113–.115 and .123 for the unresolved legal predicate; no medical assessment. |
| B16 — Care for family. Answered—text boundary. |
Defined relationship, serious condition and needed physical/psychological care are cumulative; sole-caregiver status is unnecessary. C041–C044, C058–C059. |
Relationship, condition and care necessity absent. |
Relationship alone or being the only relative establishes entitlement. |
Read §.124’s precise generic care category and relevant family definition. |
| B17 — Inpatient care. Answered—text boundary. |
Overnight stay in a listed facility, with related incapacity/treatment, is the selected definition. C082; §.114. |
No facility/stay facts; undefined edge cases unresolved. |
Any visit/admission or crossing midnight necessarily meets the definition. |
Seek official generic interpretation of “overnight stay” if its legal boundary becomes indispensable. |
| B18 — Incapacity-plus-treatment timing. Answered—text boundary; remote interpretation partial. |
>3 full consecutive calendar days plus two treatments/30 days or one/supervised regimen, first visit within seven days, with limited follow-up exception. C085–C086. |
All incapacity/provider/timing predicates absent. |
Every illness requires this route, or the follow-up exception automatically extends the first visit. |
Read §.115(a) and any readable official interpretation of the specific timing issue. |
| B19 — Pregnancy. Answered—text boundary. |
Pregnancy incapacity/prenatal care is a separate route; no universal >3-day or visit-during-each-absence requirement. C087, C091; §.115(b), (f). |
Actual legal/medical predicates absent. |
Every pregnancy-related event automatically qualifies or fails without three days. |
Read the relevant §.120/§.115 clause; treatment and individual eligibility remain unassessed. |
| B20 — Chronic condition. Answered—text boundary. |
At-least-twice-yearly visits, extended duration and chronic/episodic predicates apply. C088, C091. |
Visits, period convention and functional predicates absent. |
“Chronic” alone satisfies the definition, or each episode needs a new visit. |
Read official generic interpretation of §.115(c)’s frequency if required. |
| B21 — Permanent/long-term condition. Answered—text boundary. |
Continuing supervision can suffice despite ineffective/nonactive treatment, with qualifying incapacity. C089. |
Incapacity/supervision absent. |
No active treatment means no possible coverage, or permanence alone proves it. |
Read §.115(d) and only necessary generic interpretation. |
| B22 — Multiple treatments. Answered—text boundary. |
Provider treatment/recovery must fit restorative injury surgery or the stated likely-incapacity-without-treatment route. C090. |
Treatment, referral and statutory likelihood predicates absent. |
Multiple appointments alone establish serious condition. |
Read §.115(e)’s applicable alternative; no prognosis is made. |
| B23 — Ordinary versus military exigency. Partial specialized boundary. |
Covered active duty, qualifying family link and one of the complete §.126 categories are necessary; each category has its own limits. C049, C060, C093–C101. |
Service/call predicate and current cross-reference alignment absent. |
Any deployment, State activation or military-related activity qualifies. |
Read the exact generic call-up authority and current official cross-reference clarification; no service record. |
| B24 — Military caregiver. Partial specialized boundary. |
Covered servicemember/veteran, qualifying serious injury, relationship/care and single-period rules are cumulative. C048, C061–C064. |
Service, veteran period, injury route, care and trigger absent. |
All veteran care uses 26 weeks or a rating alone proves entitlement. |
Read only the necessary generic §.127 or incorporated military-definition clause; rating/program merits held. |
| B25 — Entitlement period unknown. Answered—text boundary. |
Ordinary method alternatives differ from caregiver’s first-leave-forward single period and birth/placement expiry. C057, C064–C067. |
Selected method, prior usage and triggers absent. |
All categories share one calendar year or each reason renews the maximum. |
Read §.200’s exact period-selection/change clause and §.127’s distinct period rule. |
| B26 — Intermittent/reduced schedule. Answered—text boundary. |
Healthy-child consent, medical necessity, exigency and conditional transfer rules differ. C068–C070. |
Reason, necessity, consent and proposed schedule absent. |
Universal employer veto, universal free scheduling, or illustrative examples as caps. |
Read §§.202–.205 narrowly for the unresolved schedule/calculation issue. |
| B27 — Spouse aggregation. Answered—text boundary. |
Same employer, both entitled, and specified categories are prerequisites for combined 12/26 limits. C071. |
Employer/relationship/category/usage absent. |
Every absence of spouses is subject to one combined 12-week allowance. |
Read §2612(f) and relevant reason-specific regulation. |
| B28 — Paid substitution. Answered—text boundary; benefit interactions held. |
Paid substitution categories and concurrent treatment differ from universal wage replacement; specialized federal rules are separate. C072–C075. |
Available paid leave and lawful applicable conditions absent. |
FMLA itself pays every eligible worker or paid-policy failure destroys unpaid leave. |
Read the precise §.207 paragraph or narrow federal paid-parental clause needed; no policy lookup. |
| B29 — Notice/scheduling. Answered—selected clauses only. |
Foreseeable birth/placement/planned treatment use 30-day/as-practicable rules; medical scheduling is provider-qualified; exigency is reasonable/practicable. C076–C079. |
Foreseeability, notice, timing and provider approval absent. |
One notice period governs all absences or employer convenience overrides treatment approval. |
Read §§.300–.304 as a separate notice component. |
| B30 — Airline/school/federal special regime. Partial. |
Specialized eligibility or category definitions do not supply complete specialized entitlement calculations or administration. C027–C028, C037–C039, C106. |
FAA/category/appointment/instructional predicates and additional rules absent. |
Substitute the ordinary 1,250-hour test for airline rules, or infer special school timing from a title. |
Read §§.802–.803, .601–.604, or the specific Title II/CAA provision, only as needed. |
| B31 — Certification, benefits, restoration, remedies. Partial/excluded by scope. |
Selected text contains references and a qualified overview; full downstream regimes are not established. C079, C103–C106. |
All notices, certifications, designation, benefit/restoration and enforcement predicates absent. |
Guaranteed restoration, no termination, damages or successful claim. |
Examine §§.300–.313, .209–.219, .220, .400–.404, or .500 in separately bounded components. |
| B32 — Currentness/source gap. Partial. |
Actual compilation dates, selected enacted changes and failed routes are recorded; later law/judicial completeness is not claimed. C001–C012, C110–C111. |
Post-cutoff chain and some historical/special-regime alignment absent. |
A timestamp, source credit or access failure proves no change, repeal or judicial validity. |
Reopen the precise official amendment/effective instrument or readable current body relevant to the gap. |
| B33 — Income/debt consequences. Excluded by scope. |
Selected FMLA rules do not decide actual pay, protected funds, debt collection, borrowing or settlement suitability. C072–C075, C107. |
All financial facts and other legal regimes absent. |
Leave entitlement means income replacement, debt suspension or safe nonpayment. |
A separately authorized generic wage/benefit/debt-law component; no individual financial inquiry here. |
| B34 — Telemedicine. Unresolved interpretation. |
Codified “in-person” text is read; official FAB index is read; bulletin body remains inaccessible. C092; S032. |
Bulletin’s complete conditions/current status and any applicable facts absent. |
All remote visits qualify—or all necessarily fail. |
Obtain the ordinary readable official FAB 2020-8 body and its current public status without bypassing controls. |
| B35 — Key employee/benefit definitions. Answered definition; outcome held. |
Defined key-employee and group-health categories have specific predicates; they do not alone determine denial or continuation. C052–C054, C103. |
Ranking, plan conditions and full restoration/benefit law absent. |
“Key” means ineligible, or any payroll insurance deduction is a group health plan. |
Read §§.209–.219 only for the particular generic consequence at issue. |