The New Hampshire Paid Family and Medical Leave (NH PFML) Plan, otherwise known as the Granite State Paid Family Leave Plan, is the nation's first and only voluntary, state-sponsored paid leave plan. Eligible New Hampshire employers (public employers and private employers with more than 50 employees) and eligible employees are entitled to opt into the NH PFML insurance plan. State employees are entitled to paid family leave only.

NH PFML provides covered employees with up to 60 percent of their average weekly wages, up to the Social Security wage maximum, for up to six weeks per year, plus a seven-calendar day unpaid elimination period per year for absences from work for covered events.

Covered events include:

• the birth or adoption of a child, or caring for a newborn or newly adopted or fostered child for the first year.
• care for an employee's spouse, child, or parent with a serious health condition.
• care for a spouse, child, or parent in the military.
• military exigency.
• a personal serious health condition that is independent of employment, if the employer does not offer short-term disability insurance.
  

Employees may take continuous or intermittent leave with a minimum of four-hour increments. Employers opting into the program are required to participate in payroll deductions and continue employee health insurance coverage during leave. Employers with 50 or more workers that provide NH PFML to their employees are required to return employees taking leave to the...

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