As of January 1, 2023, the New York Paid Family Leave Law (the "NYPFLL") expanded its protections to allow eligible employees to take paid time off to care for their siblings. Previously, the NYPFLL only allowed employees to take paid time off to care for spouses and domestic partners (of any gender), children, parents, parents-in-law, grandparents, and grandchildren.

Since its enactment in January 2018, the NYPFLL has assisted thousands of New Yorkers by providing them with up to 12 weeks of job protected, paid time off to bond with a new child, care for a family member (as listed above) with a serious health condition, or to assist loved ones when a family member is deployed abroad on active military service. Other protections and benefits afforded by the NYPFLL include:

• Employees qualify to take Paid Family Leave after working 20 hours or more a week for an employer for 26 weeks (or 6 months). Alternatively, employees who work less than 20 hours per week are eligible for Paid Family Leave after working 175 days. Notably, citizenship is not a factor in an employee's eligibility to take Paid Family Leave.
  
• Eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of Paid Family Leave in every 52-week period at 67% of their average weekly wages, up to a weekly cap of $1,131.08. For example, employees who earn an average weekly wage of $1,000 will receive $670 in weekly Paid Family Leave benefits while an employee who earns an average of $2,000 per week will receive the maximum amount of...

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