Maryland recently joined nine other states (and the District of Columbia) in providing employees in the state with a right to paid family and medical leave. Although employer contributions to the paid family and medical leave program will not begin until 2023 and employees may not apply for benefits until 2025, when the law goes into effect it will dramatically expand the leave rights available to Maryland employees because the law applies to employees and employers who are not covered by the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
When the new paid family and medical leave program, employees will be entitled to take up to either 12 or 24 weeks of paid leave per year for the following reasons:
To care for a newborn child or a child newly placed for adoption, foster care, or kinship care.
To care for a family member with a serious health condition.
To attend to the employee’s own serious health condition that prevents the employee from performing the functions of his or her position.
To care for a military servicemember with a serious health condition resulting from military service.
Due to the deployment of a family member for military service.
Ordinarily, an employee is entitled to a total of 12 weeks of leave per year, but if an employee takes leave for both the birth or placement of a child and the employee’s own serious health condition, the leave entitlement expands to a maximum of 24 weeks. The employee is entitled to paid benefits from a...
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