An employee is elegible to receive family leave to care for a new born, adopted, or foster, child; or to care for a family member with a serious medical condition. The maximum duration of benefits is twelve times the typical workweek hours during a 52-week period for each of family leave and medical leave. The combined total of family and medical leave is sixteen weeks. An additional two weeks of leave may be used if the employee has a serious health condition with a pregnancy that results in incapacity, for a combined total of eighteen weeks. Family member includes child, parent, spouse, domestic partner, grandchild, grandparent, sibling, any person who regularly resides in the employee’s home and has an expectation that the employee will care for them, any person whose relationship with the employee creates an expectation that the employee will care for the person and that person depends on the employee for care.
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