The term paternal grandparents refers to the grandparents on the father's side of a person's family tree. According to Dictionary.com, a person's paternal grandparents are his father's parents.
Requirements around employee benefits are first based on the number of full-time employees a company has. If the company is an Applicable Large Employer (ALE), an hourly employee becomes eligible for benefits if the number of hours they work meets or surpasses full-time work. The Affordable Care Act and the IRS define a full-time employee as one who works at least 30 hours a week or 130 hours a month on average. Employees who will be working full-time should be offered benefits based on the company's Waiting Period.
1 The employee must have worked at least 1,250 hours during the 12 months prior to the start of FMLA leave. 2  The employer is one who employs 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius of the worksite.