FMLA / Paid Parental Leave

FMLA provides employees:

  • The ability to take up to 12 work weeks of paid or unpaid leave during any 12-month period

  • Job-protected for qualified medical and family reasons

  • While on FMLA, the employer provided the same group health insurance benefits, including employer contributions to premiums that would exist if the employee

    were not on leave

Paid Parental Leave provides employees:

  • Paid parental leave for newborn biological child or foster of a child

  • Eligible District employees who are employed by the District and who give birth are entitled to receive six weeks of paid parental leave upon the occurrence of a qualifying event. Other eligible

  • District employees who do not give birth are entitled to receive two weeks of paid parental leave upon the occurrence of a qualifying event.

Policy GCC Employee Leaves and Absences (https://www.boardpolicyonline.com/?b=georgetowncounty_boe&s=757303)

Please contact Alicia Mercer regarding any FMLA / Paid Parental Leave questions or concerns: 843-436-7009 / AMercer@gcsd.k12.sc.us