Job Protection Act
Key claim: The Job Protection Act would expand Family and Medical Leave Act coverage to all employers regardless of size and reduce the required employee service duration from 12 months to 90 days.
Abstract
(HR694 · 118th Congress) Job Protection Act This bill reduces from 12 months to 90 days the employment period required for employees (including federal employees) to become eligible for family and medical leave. Additionally, the bill makes the family and medical leave requirements applicable to all employers (currently, the requirements apply to employers with 50 or more employees). Latest action (2023-02-01): Referred to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, and in addition to the Committees on House Administration, and Oversight and Accountability, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
[This finding represents 2 closely related documents issued 2023-02-01 (same source, same action). Related: congress:118-s-210:introduced]
Why this matters
The proposal would extend FMLA job protections to workers at smaller employers and allow employees to meet the tenure requirement sooner, while bringing additional employers under FMLA leave obligations. It concerns access to job-protected leave rather than a new paid-leave benefit, and its introduced status means these changes are not established as law.