State Paid Family and Medical Leave Laws

The federal Family and Medical Leave Act guarantees many workers access to unpaid, job-protected parental, family caregiver, personal medical, and military exigency leave. In the recent past, 13 states have enacted mandatory family leave programs, and in another 8 states, voluntary family and medical leave programs are now in effect or soon will be. Like the federal FMLA, these state laws, called Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) laws provide job protection. But as the name implies, unlike the FMLA, the state laws require at least partial pay for the PFML of qualified employees.  

In this episode of HR on Mic, Corbin and Barbara discuss the recent trend of states passing these paid leave laws and how this impacts employers with employees working in different states.