Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA)

FMLA stands for the Family Medical Leave Act.  The FMLA requires covered employers, of which the City is one, to provide up to 12 workweeks of unpaid, job-protected leave to eligible employees for the following reasons:

• the birth of a child and to bond with the newborn child within one year of birth;
• the placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster car and to bond with the newly placed bond within one year of placement;
• for a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the functions of his or her job;
• to care for the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent who has a serious health condition;
• any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a military member on covered active duty

An eligible employee may also take up to 26 workweeks for FMLA leave in a single 12-month period:

• To care for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness if the employee is the spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin of the service member (military caregiver leave).

Serious Health Condition

Under the FMLA, a serious health condition is an illness, injury, impairment or physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care (defined as an overnight stay in a hospital, hospice or residential medical care facility; any overnight admission to such facilities is an automatic trigger for FMLA eligibility) or continuing treatment by a health care provider. 

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