Leave Laws & Legal Basics
This federal law gives eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for family or medical reasons.
What is Family and Medical Leave Act
Employers must offer eligible employees FMLA coverage if they have this many or more employees within 75 miles.
What is 50 employees
Employees must provide this much advance notice for foreseeable FMLA leave.
What is 30 days
New York Paid Family Leave is funded entirely by this source.
What is Employee payroll deductions
FMLA covers this type of leave to care for a newborn or newly adopted child.
What is Bonding leave
This New York law provides partial wage replacement for employees unable to work due to a non-work-related illness or injury.
What is New York Disability Benefits Law
To qualify for FMLA, employees must have worked at least this many months for their employer.
What is 12 months
New York Disability Benefits Law begin after this waiting period.
What is 7 consecutive calendar days?
Employees receive New York Paid Family Leave benefits from this entity.
What is Shelterpoint, our insurance carrier
Employees can use FMLA leave to care for this type of relative with a serious health condition.
What is Spouse, child, or parent
This New York program provides paid time off eligible employees job-protected, paid time off to: bond with a newly born, adopted or fostered child, care for a family member with a serious health condition, or assist loved ones when a spouse, domestic partner, child or parent is deployed abroad on active military service.
What is New York Paid Family Leave
Employees must have worked for a private employer for this long to qualify for New York Paid Family Leave if they work 20+ hours a week.
What is 26 consecutive weeks
Employees must submit their claim within this number of days after becoming disabled.
What is 30 days
Under New York Paid Family Leave, eligible employees may receive up to this percentage of their average weekly wage (subject to caps - $1,757.19 for 2025).
What is 67%
New York Paid Family Leave does not cover leave for an employee’s own illness, which is instead covered by this program.
What is New York Disability Benefits Law
FMLA can run concurrently with these New York State programs when applicable.
What is New York Paid Family Leave or New York Disability Benefits Law
Employers must offer eligible employees FMLA coverage if they have this many or more employees within 75 miles.
What is 50 employees
The maximum duration of New York Paid Family Leave leave per year is this many weeks.
What is 12 weeks
The maximum weekly benefit amount under New York Disability Benefits Law is this (as of 2025).
What is $170 per week
When PFL and DBL are used for childbirth, they cannot overlap. Instead, they are used in this order.
What is New York Disability Benefits Law first (pregnancy recovery) then New York Paid Family Leave (bonding)?
This New York law provides with 20 hours of paid prenatal leave, separate from your sick leave, per year.
What is New York State Paid Prenatal Leave Law
This is the minimum number of hours an employee must have worked in the past 12 months to qualify for FMLA.
What is 1,250 hours
The maximum duration of New York Disability Benefits Law benefits is this many weeks in a 52-week period.
What is 26 weeks
Employees can use paid time off to supplement income from these types of programs in order to receive their full salary while away from work.
What are New York Paid Family Leave or New York Disability Benefits Law?
This form of leave allows employees to take FMLA time in smaller increments rather than all at once.
What is Intermittent leave