1.   Employers may veto a request for intermittent leave if it is to care for a newborn or newly adopted child.

2.   He cited a constipated Chicago Transit Authority bus driver who takes intermittent leave -- allowed by the act -- on Friday afternoons and Mondays.

3.   Opponents contend that was not what Congress intended when it approved FMLA, and regulations should be changed so that intermittent leave would be at least four hours.

4.   One problem, he said, is that intermittent leave means that businesses can be required to give employees as little time off as a payroll system might track.

5.   The report found that intermittent leave was a problem at two out of five establishments.

6.   They say it would better define serious health conditions and intermittent leave.