New York Extends Paid Family Leave to Care for Siblings

Latest amendment to the state's paid family leave law expands the existing paid leave rights of New York employees to include care for biological, step, and half siblings with serious health conditions and becomes effective January 1, 2023.

New York’s Paid Family Leave law provides employees with up to 12 weeks of job protected, paid time off to bond with a newly born, adopted or foster child; care for a family member with a serious health condition; or to assist with family situations when a spouse, domestic partner, child or parent is deployed on active military service. Currently, family care leave covers caring for a spouse, domestic partner, child, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent or grandchild with a serious health condition. The recent amendments will expand such family members to include siblings: biological, step, and half.