Mat leave question
I found out that I'm pregnant when I started with this company last month. I'm due in February but I won't have 12 months under my belt to qualify for maternity leave at that point. I haven't told my employer yet because Im only 8 weeks but I have a question that I'm itching to get answered. I'm planning to use my PTO for the birth and the weeks after; then go back to work once out. But was wondering if I could take maternity once I hit my year mark in June 2019. Not ideal, but will take it if I can. Does anyone know if this is doable?
If the leave is FMLA, you can find out via the department of labor and so don't need to involve your company yet. If it's the company's paid leave, need to ask HR if it's not clear from your employee handbook. My advice, wait to say anything until you absolutely have to.
Yes, Im mostly wondering about FMLA/CFRA. I'll see if I can get an answer from Dept of labor. Website is vague.
Regardless of employer-paid leave, you qualify for SDI-paid leave no matter what or a prorated amount based on what you earned in 12 months prior (assuming you paid into SDI).
Holy shit how does opentable not have maternity leave under 12 months?! If you're in CA you have leave from the government (thanks to those ridiculous taxes we pay).
You don't need to qualify for FMLA to take a medical leave of absence. Pregnancy falls under short-term disability and most companies don't have a requirement to work for 12 months before you can qualify.
You can take FMLA after a year but it is unpaid and no guarantee of position. You can take SDI and pfl .. state won't pay you enuf. There maybe a policy where company will pay the balance but check handbook if it needs you to be in company for 12 months.
FMLA is created to save the position. It is its only purpose.
There is no guarantee of the specific position, they just have to return you to a similar role. So they can't demote you. But they can perfectly legally put you on a lower impact team for example.
You can take the leave later, you can use it until your baby is 1 year old. By the time you take FMLA you have to be employed by the company for 1 year and also work for 1250 hours in the previous 12 months. What happened to me in the similar scenario was after I took disability leave and CFPL (my employer was ok to keep my job even though CFPL didn’t protect it) I didn’t have enough hours worked to hit the 1250 rule before he baby turned 1 year. It might be possible for you though if you only take a short disability leave, check out the math for your case!
I don't mean to be a downer but of I were in your position I would take FMLA and leave the money on the table, if you can swing it financially. The first few months are really difficult for you and important for the baby.
Read the handbook!
What are u planning to do ?
Sounds doable, only real way to find out is from your manager or HR
If she asked her HR business partner, could she expect them to keep this confidential?
This is not an HR issue. This is just normal benefits/leave stuff.