by Brightmine
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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