Under current law, an employer, including the state, employing at least 50
individuals on a permanent basis must permit an employee who has been employed
by the employer for more than 52 consecutive weeks and who has worked for the
employer for at least 1,000 hours during the preceding 52-week period (employee)
to take six weeks of family leave in a 12-month period and two weeks of medical leave
in a 12-month period. Family leave may be taken for the birth or adoptive placement
of a new child or to care for a child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health
condition. Medical leave may be taken when the employee has a serious health
condition that makes the employee unable to perform the employee's employment

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duties. An employee is not entitled to receive wages or salary while taking family
or medical leave, but may substitute, for portions of family or medical leave, other
types of paid or unpaid leave provided by the employer.

When an employee returns from family or medical leave, the employer must
immediately place the employee in the employment position that the employee held
before the leave began or, if that position is filled, in an equivalent employment
position. An employee is not entitled to accrue any seniority or employment benefits
while on family or medical leave, but is entitled to have his or her group health
insurance coverage maintained under the conditions that applied before the leave
began.

This bill permits an employee of an employer that employs at least 15
individuals on a permanent basis to take unpaid family military leave during a
period of active service of the employee or of a spouse or child of the employee of 30
days or more in the U.S. armed forces, the national guard of this state or of any other
state, or the state defense force under an order of the president of the United States
or of the governor of this state or of any other state (period of active service).
Specifically, the bill permits an employee of an employer that employs between 15
and 50 individuals on a permanent basis to take no more than 15 working days of
unpaid family military leave during a period of active service and an employee of an
employer that employs more than 50 individuals on a permanent basis to take no
more than 30 working days of unpaid family military leave during a period of active
service.

Under the bill, an employee is not entitled to receive wages or salary while
taking family military leave, but may substitute, for portions of family military
leave, paid or unpaid leave of any other type provided by the employer. When an
employee returns from family military leave, the employer must immediately place
the employee in the employment position that the employee held before the leave
began or, if that position is filled, in an equivalent employment position. An
employee is not entitled to accrue any seniority or employment benefits while on
family military leave, but is entitled to have his or her group health insurance
coverage maintained under the conditions that applied before the leave began.