Industry News; Human Resources

​A regulation to cap the number of days Paid Family Leave workers can use intermittently will take effect this winter. The New York State Workers Compensation Board has formally adopted it​ with an effective date of Jan. 1, 2022. This will affect both your employer clients and your agencies.The adopted regulation is identical to the one the board proposed last May, which we reported on at the time.  While the law and previous Paid Family Leave regulations express the amount of permitted leave in terms of weeks, some workers may need to take leave in increments of days (for example, to care for elderly family members on…

​The New York State Workers' Compensation Board has proposed a regulation that would clarify the length of paid family leave when an employee takes it intermittently. In some situations, such as when an employee is caring for an elderly parent, the employee may not need to take paid family leave all at once. For example, if the parent has a home health aide visit twice a week, the employee may need to take leave of a few non-consecutive days a week. However, the law creating the paid family leave requirement and the implementing regulations state the maximum amount of leave in terms of weeks, not days.The…