An Act to Ensure Equitable Access to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program by Removing the Requirement That Leave Must Be Scheduled to Prevent Undue Hardship on the Employer

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An Act to Ensure Equitable Access to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program by Removing the Requirement That Leave Must Be Scheduled to Prevent Undue Hardship on the Employer

An Act to Ensure Equitable Access to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program by Removing the Requirement That Leave Must Be Scheduled to Prevent Undue Hardship on the Employer Sponsor: Senator Michael Tipping Reference committee: Labor Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

What This Bill Does

• An Act to Ensure Equitable Access to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program by Removing the Requirement That Leave Must Be Scheduled to Prevent Undue Hardship on the Employer Sponsor: Senator Michael Tipping Reference committee: Labor Latest committee action: Reported Out; ONTP

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Official Summary Text

An Act to Ensure Equitable Access to the Paid Family and Medical Leave Benefits Program by Removing the Requirement That Leave Must Be Scheduled to Prevent Undue Hardship on the Employer
Sponsor:
Senator Michael Tipping
Reference committee:
Labor
Latest committee action:
Reported Out; ONTP

Current Bill Text

Printed on recycled paper
132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative Document No. 575
S.P. 256 In Senate, February 25, 2025
An Act to Ensure Equitable Access to the Paid Family and Medical
Leave Benefits Program by Removing the Requirement That Leave
Must Be Scheduled to Prevent Undue Hardship on the Employer
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 19, 2025. Referred to the Committee
on Labor pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator TIPPING of Penobscot.
Cosponsored by Representative: ROEDER of Bangor.

Page 1 - 132LR1813(01)
1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1. 26 MRSA §850-B, sub-§7, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 412, Pt. AAA, §7, is
3 amended to read:
47. Notice to employer. Absent an emergency, illness or other sudden necessity for
5 taking leave, an employee shall give reasonable notice to the employee's supervisor of the
6 employee's intent to use leave under this subchapter. Use of such leave must be scheduled
7 to prevent undue hardship on the employer as reasonably determined by the employer. If
8 an employer fails to provide notice as required under section 850‑I, the employee's
9 obligation to provide notice under this subsection is waived.
10SUMMARY
11 This bill amends the law governing paid family and medical leave to remove the
12 provision that the leave must be scheduled to prevent undue hardship on the employer.
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