New Family Medical Leave Act Has Been Updated January 28th, 2008

The New Family Medical Leave Act titled Military Family Leave Notice has been signed into law H.R. 4986, the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (NDAA) by President Bush, and became effective January 28, 2008
This new law provides eligible employees working for covered employers two important new leave rights related to military service:

(1) Eligible employees are entitled to up to 12 weeks of leave for any qualifying exigency arising out of the covered family member’s active duty,

(2) Eligible employees are entitled up to 26 weeks of leave in a single 12-month period to care for the covered service member who is recovering from a serious illness or injury. The employee is entitled to a combined total of 26 weeks of all types of FMLA leave.

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) only applies to employers who employ 50 or more employees for each working day in the current or previous year. (The 50 employee threshold includes both full-time employees and part-time employees.)

This notice is strictly informational only and is NOT the final version of the revised Family Medical Leave poster. After review of the new law is complete, the current FMLA poster, titled “Your Rights under the Family and Medical Leave of 1993” will be revised by the responsible federal agency; that revision will become available sometime between April and July of 2008.