What You Need To Know:

• New York State updated several aspects of its New York Paid Family Leave Law (“NY PFL”) for 2024.
• As in prior years, the updates include changes to the maximum weekly benefit amount available to employees and the overall annual contribution employees make toward NY PFL benefits.
• The State is also considering a major update to the NY PFL program, as well as the State’s corresponding statutory Disability Benefits program, in the context of potential coverage for absences related to prenatal leave.

2024 marks the start of the sixth year that NY PFL benefits are available to eligible employees. As a reminder, under the NY PFL law, eligible employees may receive up to 12 weeks of job-protected paid leave in a 52-week period for qualifying absences such as bonding with a newly born, adopted, or fostered child, caring for a family member with a serious health condition, or assisting loved ones when a spouse, domestic partner, child or parent is deployed abroad on active military service.

Here are the highlights of what has changed and what may change with NY PFL in 2024.

Potential Expansion to Cover Prenatal Leave

NY PFL has been updated and amended at various times since the program went into effect. For instance, on January 1, 2023, NY PFL was amended by adding an employee’s sibling to the program’s definition of “covered family members.” Another potential expansion of NY PFL is looming, this time involving prenatal leave.

Specifically, on January 4,...

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