Section 6 Birth, Care, or Adoption of Child

• Library: Employer-Employee Law 2008

Covered employers must provide leave to eligible employees:

“(1) For [the] birth of a son or daughter, and to care for the newborn child;

(2) For placement with the employee of a son or daughter for adoption or foster care.”

29 C.F.R. § 825.112(a).

A father, as well as a mother, can take family leave for the birth or placement for adoption or foster care of a child. 29 C.F.R. § 825.112(b). Circumstances may require that FMLA leave begin before the actual date of birth of a child, and an expectant...