Bifurcation of FMLA Bonding Leave. The Board recognizes the importance of parental bonding time with newborn children or after placement of a child for adoption or xxxxxx care, and further recognizes that employees may wish to bifurcate their available FMLA leave between time immediately after birth/adoption/placement and a later period that better facilitates bonding in their particular situation. To this end, employees may apply to bifurcate their available FMLA bonding leave into two separate blocks of time, one immediately adjacent to birth/adoption/placement and a second ending no later than one (1) year after birth/adoption/placement. In the event of a material change in circumstances occurring within two (2) weeks after birth/adoption/placement, an employee who had been approved for bonding leave to be used in a single block of time may apply to interrupt that leave period due to such changed circumstances, return to duty for a period of time, and then resume the leave for the remainder of such approved leave ending no longer than one (1) year after birth/adoption/placement.
Bifurcation of FMLA Bonding Leave. The Board recognizes the importance of parental bonding time with newborn children or after placement of a child for adoption or xxxxxx care, and further recognizes that employees may wish to bifurcate their available FMLA leave between time immediately after birth/adoption/placement and a later period that better facilitates bonding in their particular situation. To this end, employees may apply to bifurcate their available FMLA bonding leave into two separate blocks of time, one immediately adjacent to birth/adoption/placement and a second ending no later than one
