Under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (“FMLA”), you are eligible to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid family/medical leave and be restored to the same or a comparable position upon your return from leave if:
The 12-month period in which you may take 12 weeks of leave will be measured as a “rolling” 12-month period dating back from the time you request the leave.
When leave is to care for an injured or ill service member (“Military Caregiver Leave”), an eligible employee may take up to 26 workweeks of leave during a single 12-month period to care for the service member. Leave to care for an injured or ill service member, when combined with other FMLA-qualifying leave, may not exceed 26 weeks in a single 12-month period. The single 12-month period for purposes of this leave entitlement begins on the first day an eligible employee takes leave to care for the injured service member.
* The Publicis must have completed a domestic partner affidavit or will need to complete one if none is on file.
** Military Caregiver Leave is available to a wide range of family members — spouses, children, parents and those “next of kin” of the covered service member. The term “next of kin” only applies to Military Caregiver Leave. It means the nearest blood relative of the service member, expanding the definition to include siblings, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and first cousins.