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This guide provides information on how to talk to your employer about taking job-protected leave for family or medical reasons under the FMLA. The Employee’s Guide to the Family and Medical Leave Act (PDF).
The FMLA provides eligible employees with the ability to use job-protected leave to care for a parent with a serious health condition, including providing psychological comfort. Under the FMLA, a parent is an employee’s biological, adoptive, step, or foster parent, or someone who stood in loco parentis to the employee when the employee was a ...
The FMLA as Applied to Grandparents. On its face, the FMLA does not allow grandparents to take protected leave to take care of their grandchildren. The FMLA provides protected leave to “care for the spouse, or a son, daughter, or parent, of the employee…” who suffers from a serious health condition.
Some states include siblings, grandparents, domestic partners and others in the definition of family member for the purposes of family medical leave. Employers are advised to review their states'...
Because FMLA uses such a narrow definition of family — children, spouses and parents —some states have extended family leave benefits to workers caring for grandparents, in-laws, domestic partners and others.
The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year. It also requires that their group health benefits be maintained during the leave.
Standing in loco parentis under the FMLA typically refers to a person who assumes parental status and carries out the obligations of a parent to a child, including grandparents, siblings,...
Does FMLA leave cover parents, grandparents, and in-laws? How do I talk to my employer about FMLA for a family member? What if my employer won’t grant FMLA leave?
Most employers know that qualified employees are entitled under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) to take unpaid leave from work to care for a spouse, child or parent with a serious health condition. What happens when the employee requests FMLA leave to care for a sick grandparent?
Learn about the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), which allows eligible employees to take unpaid leave for personal medical reasons or to care for family.