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The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected, unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. [1] The FMLA was a major part of President Bill Clinton's first-term domestic
In the US, parents and family are federally protected under the 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) [17] to go on maternity or family leave after the adoption or birth of a child. [18] Under this law, legal parents are protected for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave (per year).
However, paid FMLA is only a temporary solution for most family caregivers. It provides only partial wage replacement for a certain amount of time, which is usually up to 12 weeks a year. However ...
Some workers report that they or a family member have been fired or suspended for missing work due to illness. [5] A 2020 paper found that requiring paid sick leave in the US likely increased overall well-being. [6] When paid sick leave is required by law, workers tended to take two more days off work each year. [6]
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The concept of "immediate family" acknowledges that a person has or may feel particular responsibilities towards family members, which may make it difficult to act fairly towards non-family (hence the refusal of many companies to employ immediate family members of current employees), [3] or which call for special allowance to recognise this ...
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Short-term medical illness and routine medical checkups were not covered until the FMLA, and family members other than parents, spouses, and children are not covered. Some states have extended the definition of family on their own, and therefore extended the coverage of FMLA.