SPRINGFIELD – The new Illinois Family Bereavement Leave Act will expand unpaid leave rights for employees across the State. The act is an amendment that expands leave time requirements to cover pregnancy loss, failed adoptions or surrogacy agreements, unsuccessful reproductive procedures, and other diagnoses or events negatively impacting pregnancy or fertility. It also requires employers to provide leave time after the loss of family members previously not covered, including spouses, domestic partners, siblings, grandparents, and stepparents. Employees may take up to two weeks, or 10 working days, of unpaid leave time to attend a funeral, or to make arrangements necessitated by the death of the family member.
“Workers who experience the death of a loved one or other kinds of loss such as a miscarriage or a failed adoption should be able to grieve without the fear of losing their job,” said Illinois Department of Labor Acting Director Jane Flanagan
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