An excused absence from work for the purpose of dealing with family matters, especially the birth or adoption of a child or to care for a sick parent or spouse.
Example sentencesExamples
Paid family leave only can be used to care for someone else's serious health conditions or for child bonding, not for an employee's own serious health conditions.
The FMLA enables parents-women and men-to take up to twelve weeks of unpaid family leave for the care of children, spouses, or parents with serious health conditions.
In the past year, California has become the first state to provide paid family leave for workers - long a staple in Europe, but never before enacted in the U.S.
For the couple in question, the motivation was gaining permission from one of the women's employers to take family leave in order to care for her mother-in-law, who is ill and living with them.
When Kirchgassner became ill and required three surgeries, Robertson was unable to take family leave to care for her or the children as a married couple could.
Definition of family leave in US English:
family leave
noun
An excused absence from work for the purpose of dealing with family matters, especially the birth or adoption of a child or to care for a sick parent or spouse.
Example sentencesExamples
The FMLA enables parents-women and men-to take up to twelve weeks of unpaid family leave for the care of children, spouses, or parents with serious health conditions.
Paid family leave only can be used to care for someone else's serious health conditions or for child bonding, not for an employee's own serious health conditions.
In the past year, California has become the first state to provide paid family leave for workers - long a staple in Europe, but never before enacted in the U.S.
When Kirchgassner became ill and required three surgeries, Robertson was unable to take family leave to care for her or the children as a married couple could.
For the couple in question, the motivation was gaining permission from one of the women's employers to take family leave in order to care for her mother-in-law, who is ill and living with them.