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Paid Family Leave Act – Bill Introduced
A New Bill, which is an Act providing for paid family and medical leave for eligible employees under certain circumstances and for regulations by the Department of Labor and Industry was introduced in the Senate on September 19, 2019.
Definitions:
Eligible employee – As defined in the FMLA and who is the parent through birth, adoption or placement through foster care of a new child.
Employer – A person engaged in commerce or industry or activity affecting commerce who employs at least four employees in this Commonwealth for each working day during each of 20 or more calendar workweeks in the current or preceding calendar
year. The term includes:
Duration
An employer of an eligible employee entitled to paid leave may not, during the period of leave, terminate, reduce or in any manner diminish the other benefits or emoluments of employment to which the eligible employee was entitled before the period of leave commenced.
This act is likely to take effect in the month of November 2019.