by Susan A. P. Woodhouse, Littler
This guide offers a comprehensive overview of Washington’s family and medical leave laws, including the state’s Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) program, unpaid family military leave, and kin care provisions. It also covers pregnancy disability leave, accommodations for pregnancy-related conditions, and equal adoption leave rights.
Designed for HR professionals and employers, this resource helps ensure compliance with state requirements.
In this guide, learn about:
- Family and medical leave
- Same-sex marriage
- Paid family leave
- Employer coverage
- Employee eligibility
- Qualifying reasons for leave
- Leave amounts
- Benefit amount
- Supplemental benefits
- Ineligibility for benefits
- Contesting a benefits claim
- Appeals
- Employee notice and disclosure requirements
- Employer notice requirements
- Reporting requirements
- Recordkeeping requirements
- Reinstatement
- Prohibited actions
- Waivers
- Plan options
- Interaction with other laws and policies
- Enforcement and penalties
- Family military leave
- Covered employers
- Employee eligibility
- Purpose and length of leave
- Employee notice requirements
- Compensation and benefits
- Reinstatement
- Pregnancy disability leave
- Covered employers
- Employee eligibility
- Purpose and length of leave
- Reduced schedule and intermittent leave
- Compensation and benefits
- Reinstatement
- Pregnancy leave and accommodation
- Kin care leave
- Employee certification requirements
- Compensation and benefits
- Reinstatement
- Paid leave policies
- Employer notice requirements
- Prohibited actions
- Adoption leave
- Interaction of leave laws
- Future developments
- Paid family and medical leave law amended
Federal law and guidance on this subject should be reviewed together with this section.
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Littler
Littler, the largest global employment and labor law practice, exclusively represents the global employer community in all aspects of employment and labor law. Littler litigates, mediates and negotiates some of the most influential employment law cases and labor contracts on record.
Littler’s practice areas are extensive and their expertise crosses over multiple industries and spans a wide array of employment law areas such as discrimination and harassment, labor management relations, executive compensation, ERISA and benefit plan litigation, leaves of absence and disability accommodation, hiring, performance management and termination, employment practices audits and wage and hour.
Littler is the exclusive author of Brightmine’s prestigious Employee Handbook. Their experience with preparing employee handbooks and their ongoing contributions to Brightmine in the areas of federal and state leaves of absence, disabilities and multistate employer issues made them a natural fit to partner with us on the creation of a robust set of model handbook policy statements and guidance for federal, state and key municipalities.
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