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| 5 | 5 | | 2023 -- H 5990 |
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| 7 | 7 | | LC002029 |
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| 9 | 9 | | S TATE OF RHODE IS LAND |
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| 10 | 10 | | IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY |
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| 11 | 11 | | JANUARY SESSION, A.D. 2023 |
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| 12 | 12 | | ____________ |
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| 14 | 14 | | A N A C T |
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| 15 | 15 | | RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PARENTA L AND |
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| 16 | 16 | | FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT |
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| 17 | 17 | | Introduced By: Representatives Giraldo, Morales, Sanchez, Cruz, Stewart, and Voas |
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| 18 | 18 | | Date Introduced: March 01, 2023 |
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| 19 | 19 | | Referred To: House Finance |
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| 22 | 22 | | It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows: |
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| 23 | 23 | | SECTION 1. Section 28-48-2 of the General Laws in Chapter 28-48 entitled "Rhode Island 1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | Parental and Family Medical Leave Act" is hereby amended to read as follows: 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | 28-48-2. Parental leave and family leave requirement. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (a) Every employee who has been employed by the same employer for twelve (12) 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | consecutive months shall be entitled, upon advance notice to his or her employer, to thirteen (13) 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | twenty-six (26) consecutive workweeks of parental leave or family leave in any two (2) calendar 6 |
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| 29 | 29 | | years. The employee shall give at least thirty (30) days’ notice of the intended date upon which 7 |
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| 30 | 30 | | parental leave or family leave shall commence and terminate, unless prevented by medical 8 |
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| 31 | 31 | | emergency from giving the notice. The director shall promulgate regulations governing the form 9 |
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| 32 | 32 | | and content of the employee’s notice to the employer. 10 |
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| 33 | 33 | | (b) Parental leave or family leave granted pursuant to this chapter may consist of unpaid 11 |
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| 34 | 34 | | leave. If an employer provides paid parental leave or family leave for fewer than thirteen (13) 12 |
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| 35 | 35 | | twenty-six (26) weeks, the additional weeks of leave added to attain the total of thirteen (13) 13 |
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| 36 | 36 | | twenty-six (26) weeks required by subsection (a) may be unpaid. 14 |
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| 37 | 37 | | (c) The employer may request that the employee provide the employer with written 15 |
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| 38 | 38 | | certification from a physician caring for the person who is the reason for the employee’s leave, 16 |
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| 39 | 39 | | which certification shall specify the probable duration of the employee’s leave. 17 |
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| 43 | 43 | | SECTION 2. This act shall take effect upon passage. 1 |
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| 50 | 50 | | EXPLANATION |
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| 51 | 51 | | BY THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL |
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| 52 | 52 | | OF |
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| 53 | 53 | | A N A C T |
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| 54 | 54 | | RELATING TO LABOR AND LABOR RELATIONS -- RHODE ISLAND PARENTA L AND |
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| 55 | 55 | | FAMILY MEDICAL LEAVE ACT |
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| 57 | 57 | | This act would increase the amount of unpaid parental or family leave available to an 1 |
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| 58 | 58 | | employee, from thirteen (13) weeks to twenty-six (26) weeks, in any two (2) calendar years. 2 |
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| 59 | 59 | | This act would take effect upon passage. 3 |
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