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The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job protected leave. Leave is available for 26 unpaid weeks for the care of a covered service member with a serious injury or illness.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) provides certain employees with up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year. It also requires that their group health benefits be maintained during the leave.

Employee has at least 1000 hours of work and paid leave for employer in the preceding 52 weeks and employee worked for employer for at least 52 consecutive weeks. 12 weeks during a 12 month period. Leave for birth, adoption, or to care for sick parent or childmust be shared by spouses working for same employer.

Employees are eligible for leave if they have worked for their employer at least 12 months, at least 1,250 hours over the past 12 months, and work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles.

FMLA is only for certain family and medical reasons. It can be for the adoption or birth of your child, or because you or a family member have a serious health condition. If you are caring for a family member, they must be a spouse, child or parent. The child has to be younger than 18 unless they are disabled.

To apply for leave under FMLA, contact the personnel office of your employer agency. If eligible and approved, the personnel office will provide to the Fund's administrative office the appropriate information for continuation of Fund benefits.

FMLA leave is unpaid, but employees may be allowed (or required) to use their accrued paid leave during FMLA leave. When an employee's FMLA leave ends, the employee is entitled to be reinstated to the same or an equivalent position, with a few exceptions.

Pritzker signed the “Paid Leave for All Workers Act” (the Act),1 which guarantees that Illinois workers can earn or accrue up to 40 hours of paid leave per year that may be used for any reason. The Act becomes effective 1 January 2024.