Understanding Medical Leaves

Human resources personnel can use the Medical Information Tracking program (P076210) to review medical leave information and to track the progress of an employee's health while they are on medical leave. You can also use this program to send medical leave forms to employees through the employee work center. Employees can print the forms from the work center.

For example, if you require a physician to verify an employee's physical condition before you allow the employee to return to work, you can use this program to send a message to the employee's work center with the medical form attached.

You can also use this program to attach medical opinion information to the request, and to track historical medical opinions from doctors, which might provide important information about the progress and status of an employee's medical condition and fitness for work.

Note: Typically, only human resources personnel use this program. Because the information that is tracked using this program can be private and confidential employee information, it is recommended that you set up a high level of security for this program. Contact the system administrator or technical support personnel for assistance with security setup.

When medical leave tracking is enabled in the Leave Type Setup program (P07601) and employees submit requests for medical leave, the system creates records in these tables:

• F07620

  All employee leave requests, including medical leave requests, are recorded in this table.

• F07621

  Only medical leave requests are recorded in this table.

The employee's manager has access to the record that the system creates in the F07620 table. This record contains the information that the manager uses to review, approve, or deny a leave request. Human resources personnel have access to the record that the system creates in the F07621 table.

If you use this feature, the employee's manager and a human resources administrator must approve each medical leave.