What constitutes a “serious health condition” under the FMLA?
The FMLA defines a “serious health condition” to mean “an illness, injury, impairment, or physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care or continuing treatment by a health care provider” that results in absences of more than three consecutive days and which makes an employee unable to perform the essential functions of the job. Treatment by a health care provider must be for two or more times or “on at least one occasion which results in a regime of continuing treatment.
