Sure, they want you to get them a glass of water when they're in bed. Sometimes, they'll throw you a bone and ask you to lay with them when they're freaked out by some scary character they saw in a trailer on YouTube. I'm there. My sweet, amazing baby boy (who I wrote about here) is now a tween.
An employee who has been employed for a total of at least twelve (12) months on the date on which any FMLA/CFRA leave is to commence, and 2. Who, on the date on which any FMLA/CFRA leave is to commence, has physically worked for at least 1,250 hours during the previous twelve (12)-month period.
FMLA does not require the employee to adopt the calendar year as the twelve month period for FMLA leave. One reason FMLA permits alternate formulas is to prevent leave the last twelve weeks of one year and the first twelve of the next. That would result in six months of an absence.