As I reported last month, the Department of Labor has been working with the Office of Management and Budget to extend the life of its model FMLA forms, which expired on December 31, 2011.  If you checked the DOL website today, you would find that the Department now has approval to use its model FMLA forms through February 28, 2015.  The "new" forms can be accessed here. 

So, what changes did the DOL make to its model FMLA forms?  [Insert background music from Groundhog Day.]  Ahem, there are no changes to the forms.  That's right!  Zero. Zip. Nada.

Call me naive, wet behind the ears, clueless about federal government [not apologizing for that one], but it's a bit odd that DOL made absolutely no changes to its model FMLA forms.  Sure, the OMB process can be maddening, at best, but all we anticipated a few tweaks, right? 

At a minimum, I would have expected the following changes to the DOL's FMLA forms..

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