family medical leave
Health-related work break
Family medical leave is job-protected time off that allows employees to handle significant health or family matters—caring for a newborn, recovering from serious illness, or tending to a sick family member.
In the United States, the Family and Medical Leave Act guarantees eligible workers up to twelve weeks of unpaid leave annually: She took family medical leave after her father's stroke.
The leave is unpaid but preserves the employee's position and benefits.
- maternityState of being pregnant
- paternityMale parent status
- FMLAJob-protected family leave law
- unpaidNot yet compensated
- time offScheduled absence from duties
work-life balance · newborn · caregiver · disability · pregnancy · bonding · employer · human resources · HR · paperwork · qualifying · intermittent · certification · recovery · childbirth · new parent · adoption · foster
- leavevacation, vacation days, PTO, time off, paid time off
- work leavevacation days, FMLA, personal days, jury duty, short-term disability
- parental leaveFMLA, maternity pay, paternity pay, parental benefits
- family benefitsdaycare subsidy, childcare, nanny share, childcare subsidies, childcare vouchers
family medical leaveactive duty
Current military employment status
full-time employment · on the job · working · at work · on the clock
family medical leavevacation
Leisure time away
paid time off · personal leave · sabbatical · holiday · leisure time
family medical leaveat-will employment
Job without guaranteed duration
termination · dismissal · job abandonment · firing · layoff
family, families, familial, familiar, familiarity, familiarize, unfamiliar, medical, medically