Short
Title: An Act providing for family and medical leave for eligible employees.
Prime
Sponsor: Representative
TRUITT
Last
Action: Referred to LABOR
AND INDUSTRY, Feb. 10, 2015 [House]
MEMORANDUM
Posted:
January 26, 2015 04:19 PM
From:
Representative Dan Truitt
To:
All House members
Subject:
Family Medical Leave Act
(Previous HB 298)
For
many Americans, the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) has become a useful
and necessary tool when dealing with a serious illness of a parent, child, or
spouse. But what if the family member
stricken ill is a sibling without a spouse or child? What if the family member is a grandparent
with no children around to care for them in their final days? Now is the time to make simple but meaningful
changes to the FMLA here in the Commonwealth.
In
the near future, I plan to re-introduce House Bill 298 of last Session, which
would extend family medical leave benefits to siblings, grandparents, and
grandchildren. Language in the bill is
designed to ensure no one “double dips” and takes leave time from the federal
and state extension program. It would
also limit the amount of time to six weeks instead of twelve and only apply in
those instances where the patient has no living spouse, parent, or child.
So,
the impact on a business would be minimal but the positive effect it would have
on the patient as well as the family member/caretaker would be enormous. The two are spending more time with each
other during a difficult and painful time.
This results in patients using the state less for a source of home
assistance. Extending the FMLA to
sibling, grandparents, and grandchildren when there is no other alternative is
a “win” both for Pennsylvania and for the affected families.
Attached
is the bill from last Session. I hope
that you will join me in co-sponsoring this legislation.
Previous
co-sponsors include: TRUITT, BISHOP , CONKLIN , V. BROWN, W. KELLER , DAVIS,
CLYMER , MATZIE, HARHART , MURT , HACKETT, HENNESSEY , PARKER , EVERETT and K.
BOYLE
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