Leave for Caring for a Relative with a Serious Health Condition

Eligibility

To be eligible for New York Paid Family Leave (NYPFL) for a qualifying event, employees must meet the following minimum time-worked requirements:

Employees who work a regular schedule of 20 or more hours per week are eligible after 26 consecutive weeks of employment.
Employees who work a regular schedule of less than 20 hours per week are eligible after working 175 days, which do not need to be consecutive.

Employees with irregular schedules should look at their average schedule to determine if they work, on average, fewer than 20 hours per week.

Leave can be taken all at once, intermittently, or as a reduced schedule.

When both spouses or Legally Domiciled Adults (LDAs) are employed by the University and each wishes to take leave to care for the same covered injured or ill service member, their combined total leave for this purpose is limited to 26 weeks.

Leave can be taken all at once, intermittently, or as a reduced schedule.

Employee Classification	Fordham Paid (Income Replacement)	Statutory (Income Replacement)	Leave Benefits
Faculty and Full-Time SEIU Faculty	See University Statutes Section 4-5.10 "Family-Related Leave."	Eligible for NY Paid Family Leave (67% of an employee's average weekly wage, capped at $1,177.32).	Up to twelve (12) weeks of leave within a consecutive 52-week period. The 12-month period is a rolling 12-month period, measured backward from the date an employee uses any leave under this policy. Vacation or sick time cannot be used to supplement the NYPFL benefit.
Administrators	May use accrued sick and vacation time under FMLA.
Clerical	May use accrued sick and vacation time under FMLA.
Maintenance	May use accrued sick and vacation time under FMLA.
Part-time SEIU	Must use accrued sick time under FMLA.
Graduate Student Workers (CWA)	Must use accrued sick time under FMLA.
Other Part-Time Employees	Must use accrued sick time under FMLA.
Resident Assistants	Must use accrued sick time under FMLA.