Family and Medical Leave Act
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2023-02-01 — Job Protection Act: The introduced Job Protection Act would eliminate the FMLA’s 50-employee employer-size threshold and reduce required employee tenure from 12 months to 90 days, expanding workers’ access to job-protected leave and employers’ coverage obligations; this repeats the proposal already logged and does not establish enactment or a new legislative milestone. (novelty: 3)
- 2023-02-02 — Caring for All Families Act: The Caring for All Families Act, introduced but not enacted, would expand FMLA job-protected leave for private-sector and federal employees to cover care for domestic partners and chosen family members, eldercare, and school activities, broadening workers’ qualifying leave reasons and covered employers’ leave obligations. (novelty: 2)
- 2021-04-15 — Family Medical Leave Modernization Act: The Family Medical Leave Modernization Act, introduced but not enacted, would expand FMLA-covered caregiving relationships to domestic partners and chosen family members and provide additional leave for school events, routine medical visits, and eldercare, broadening eligible workers’ leave rights and covered employers’ obligations. (novelty: 2)
- 2022-03-03 — Job Protection Act: The Job Protection Act, introduced and referred to committee, would reduce the FMLA employment-tenure requirement from 12 months to 90 days and eliminate the 50-employee coverage threshold, extending coverage to businesses of all sizes; these changes are proposed, not enacted. (novelty: 2)