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Birth or Care of Child

Release Date: January 22, 2009

Another clarification in the new regulations is that a father may take leave to care for a mother when she becomes unable to work or in need of care due to pregnancy or child birth.  A clarification in the new regulations is that both the father and mother now may each take 12 weeks of leave due to the birth or adoption of a child, if the child has a serious health condition, even if they are both employed by the same employer. This is a change from the previous regulations which only allowed a total of 12 weeks of combined leave for parents employed by the same employer.