After a brief FMLA leave, can we request a second opinion to make sure the worker is ready to return?
Q. We have an employee returning from FMLA leave. His physician has issued a fitness-for-duty certificate. However, we have doubts about the worker’s ability to perform his job because he wasn’t off work very long ... Can we send him to another physician for a second fitness-for-duty examination?
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