" beginning January 1, 2007, pre-merger AT&T employees will use the calendar-year method (January 1 to December 31) permitted under federal law to determine and track an employee's 12-week FMLA allotment. All eligible employees will be entitled to a maximum of 12 weeks of FMLA leave within this time period. This replaces the rolling-year method used in the past, which ran from any day of the year to the same date on the following year." Download notification letter from Lori J. Smith, AT$T Labor Relations in PDF format.