Day: July 14, 2015

The Family and Medical Leave Act was enacted by Congress over 25 years ago to require employers to provide leave to employees without threat of job loss or loss of health benefits. Yet, even after all those years, some employers still don’t apply the law correctly. The Act requires covered employers to provide up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave within a 12-month period for the following reasons: the birth of a child or to care for the newborn child in his or her first year of life; placement with the employee of a child for adoption or foster care and care for the child in the first year of placement; the