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Any fixed 12-month period (such as a fiscal year or the period starting on an employee's anniversary date). The 12-month period measured forward from the date an employee's FMLA leave begins. A rolling 12-month period measured backward from the date an employee uses any FMLA leave.
Employees are eligible for FMLA leave if: they have worked for the company for at least a year. they worked at least 1,250 hours during the previous year, and. they work at a location with at least 50 employees within a 75-mile radius.
The employer looks back 12 months (from July 31st back to the previous August 1st) to see if any FMLA leave had been used.
Under the FMLA, a serious health condition is an illness, injury, impairment or physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care (defined as an overnight stay in a hospital, hospice or residential medical care facility; any overnight admission to such facilities is an automatic trigger for FMLA eligibility) or
Intermittent leave can be tracked by recording the employee's work schedule and subtracting from it the number of hours they took for FMLA leave. If the employee was scheduled to work 7 hours and only worked 3 hours, then 4 hours of FMLA leave can be counted. Employers must track this information.
Employees can take up to 12 weeks of FMLA leave in a 12 month period. However, employers can define if that time is in a calendar year, a rolling 12 months backward from current days.
There is no paid family leave in Maine. While some businesses have disability insurance policies that allow for paid leave, there is no state mandated guarantee of paid leave. However, beginning in 2021, public and private employers with 25 or more employees will be required to provide paid leave.
1. Family medical leave entitlement. Every employee who has been employed by the same employer for 12 consecutive months is entitled to up to 10 work weeks of family medical leave in any 2 years unless employed at a permanent work site with fewer than 15 employees.
The FMLA only requires unpaid leave. However, the law permits an employee to elect, or the employer to require the employee, to use accrued paid vacation leave, paid sick or family leave for some or all of the FMLA leave period.
Maine does not have a paid family medical leave policy. However, beginning in 2021, public and private employers with 25 or more employees will be required to provide paid leave.