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1999 SESSION

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HB 2419 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).

Introduced by: George W. Grayson | all patrons    ...    notes | add to my profiles

SUMMARY AS INTRODUCED:

Department of Personnel and Training (DPT); personnel policies of the Commonwealth; Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA). Requires DPT’s personnel policies to permit a state employee to substitute up to 50 percent of his accrued paid sick leave for leave taken pursuant to the FMLA. Current law, enacted in 1997, permits substitution of 33 percent of such leave. The FMLA permits eligible employees to take up to 12 work weeks of unpaid leave in a 12-month period for the birth of a child or the placement of a child for adoption or foster care, to care for an immediate family member (spouse, child, or parent) with a serious health condition, or when the employee is unable to work because of a serious health condition. Subject to conditions established by the employer, the FMLA also permits employees to substitute paid leave for unpaid FMLA leave. Under the Commonwealth’s new sickness and disability program, which is optional for workers employed before January 1, 1999, and mandatory for new employees hired after that date, a participating employee will receive eight to ten days of sick leave annually (depending on his length of service) in lieu of earning five hours of sick leave per pay period under the current state benefits system. Under this bill, the maximum amount of unpaid FMLA sick leave that an employee receiving ten days of sick leave could substitute is five days. Without the bill, that same employee could substitute only 3.3 days. Employees who do not participate in the new program would be able to substitute 50 percent of their accrued paid sick leave balances earned under the current state benefits system.


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