Under the Family and Medical Leave Act, if your employer has 50+ employees, you would be entitled to 12 weeks of leave. To request such leave under the FMLA, you will need a detailed report from your doctor describing your condition and prognosis to the employer together with reasoning you need to be out of work up to 9/1/12. The same letter would be needed for the Disability insurance claim as well.

In your letter, if FMLA applies, you need to state you are asking for leave under FMLA. If FMLA does not apply, then you have some problems, since you would have to be at the mercy of your employer regarding extended leave from work, even though you would still be entitled to disability compensation under the disability insurance laws.

Explain to the employer that while you know this can be an inconvenience, you are requesting the leave in order to improve your health condition to become an even better employee for them in the future.

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