The Paid Family and Medical Leave Act will provide up to twelve weeks of family and medical leave compensation to covered employees during a twelve-month period as well as an additional two weeks of compensation to a covered employee for a serious health condition resulting in incapacitation that ocurrs during pregnancy. As such, employees can take time off to bond with a child within one year of birth or placement from foster care/adoption or to care for aa family member with a serious health condition. Covered family members will include the worker’s son/daughter, parent, grandparent, grandchild, sibling, spouse, a parent of their spouse, a grandparent of their spouse, or an individual related to the worker by blood/affinity whose relationship is the equivalent of a family relationship. Workers are entitled to have their job back at the end of their leave, so long as they have been employed by their employer for at least three months prior to taking leave.
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