{"id":2132,"date":"2025-05-28T15:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/?p=2132"},"modified":"2025-05-28T15:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T19:01:11","slug":"maryland-clarifies-parental-leave-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/2025\/05\/28\/maryland-clarifies-parental-leave-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Clarifies Parental Leave Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" src=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act-FMLA-Resized-01.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1905\" style=\"width:300px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act-FMLA-Resized-01.png 800w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act-FMLA-Resized-01-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Family-and-Medical-Leave-Act-FMLA-Resized-01-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Maryland\u2019s Parental Leave Act\u202frequires employers with\u202f15 to 49 employees\u202fin Maryland to provide eligible employees with\u202fup to six weeks of unpaid parental leave\u202ffor the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child. \u00a0But the state\u00a0has recently changed\u00a0the definition of \u201cemployer\u201d under Maryland\u2019s Parental Leave Act to exclude those already covered by FMLA, even if they have between 15 and 49 employees.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Effective\u202fOctober 1, 2025, Maryland employers covered by the federal FMLA will no longer be subject to the state\u2019s unpaid parental leave requirements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Jackson Lewis:<\/em><br><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.disabilityleavelaw.com\/2025\/05\/articles\/uncategorized\/maryland-clarifies-parental-leave-law-fmla-covered-employers-now-exempt\/#page=1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Maryland Clarifies Parental Leave Law: FMLA-Covered Employers Now Exempt<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Maryland\u2019s Parental Leave Act\u202frequires employers with\u202f15 to 49 employees\u202fin Maryland to provide eligible employees with\u202fup to six weeks of unpaid parental leave\u202ffor the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child. \u00a0But the state\u00a0has recently changed\u00a0the definition of \u201cemployer\u201d under Maryland\u2019s Parental Leave Act to exclude those already covered by FMLA, even if they have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1003,"featured_media":1905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[114,175,174],"class_list":["post-2132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-legal","tag-fmla","tag-maryland","tag-parental-leave-law"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1003"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2133,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2132\/revisions\/2133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iiicareer.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}