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Types of leave

Family and Medical Leave

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows up to 12 work weeks of job-protected leave if you’ve worked at least 1,250 hours during a 12-month period. You can use FMLA continuously or intermittently.

If you work at a Washington, D.C. location, you may also be eligible for time off under D.C. FMLA.

Qualifying reasons for FMLA include:

• Birth, adoption, fostering and care of a new child
• Caring for a child, spouse or parent who has a serious health condition
• A serious health condition that makes you unable to perform your job
• Military exigency or to care for a covered service member

Leave of absence

A leave of absence (LOA) is for a period longer than 14 calendar days but less than six months, except for certain medical leaves that extend beyond six months. Your job is not guaranteed upon your return to work.

You’re eligible for an LOA if:

• You don’t qualify for FMLA, or
• You’ve used up all available FMLA.

There are multiple types of LOA:

• Health LOA, if you have a serious health condition.
• Dependent Care, to care for a child, spouse or parent who has a serious health condition, including up to four weeks of bonding time after the birth or adoption of a child (if you’re not eligible for bonding leave under FMLA).
• Personal LOA, to attend to personal, non-health related needs or emergencies if you’ve used all your paid time off.

Bereavement

You can use up to 3 days (24 hours) of paid bereavement leave to grieve and attend a funeral after the death of an immediate family member, including:

• Spouse
• Child (including miscarriages), step child and grandchild
• Sibling and step sibling
• Parent, parent-in-law, step parent and foster parent
• Grandparent
• Legal guardian

Education

Education leave provides unpaid time away from work to complete a degree program from an approved, accredited institution.

To apply for an education leave, you must:

• Attend school full time.
• Receive department approval.
• Exhaust all your paid time off.

Military

Military leave allows up to five years of job-protected leave to serve in the United States Armed Forces with a Reserve or National Guard component or the commissioned corps of the Public Health Services or other category designated by the U.S. president, under applicable law.

Extended Illness Bank

This benefit is available only to Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital employees

Extended Illness Bank (EIB) replaces your income if you miss more than 40 hours of work due to a personal illness or injury.

You’re eligible to accrue EIB starting on your first day of employment if you’re regularly scheduled to work 30+ hours per week. You can accrue up to 120 hours of EIB.

EIB can’t be combined with paid parental leave.

How you’re paid while on leave

Except for bereavement, leaves are typically unpaid. You may be able to use paid time off (PTO), short-term disability (STD) or paid parental leave (PPL) to get paid during the leave.

See which leaves can be paired with PTO, STD or PPL in the table below.

Discapacidad

Short- and long-term disability replace a portion of your income if you’re unable to work for an extended period due to illness, injury or giving birth. Visit disability for details.

Paid Parental Leave (PPL)

If you’re regularly scheduled to work 30+ hours per week and have completed 12 months of continuous employment, PPL provides up to 160 hours of paid benefits while on FMLA or an LOA to care for a new child through birth or adoption. PPL is not additional leave time.

PPL is for birth and non-birth parents:

• For the birth parent, PPL starts on the day of the birth or adoption and includes recovery and bonding time.
• Non-birth parents can choose to use PPL at any time during the 12 months following the birth or adoption, but it must be used in one continuous block of time.

PPL hours are prorated based on your Full Time Equivalent (FTE). To calculate your total available hours for PPL, multiply your FTE by 160. For example, if you regularly work 30 hours per week, you’re 75% FTE and eligible for 120 hours of PPL.

Note for Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital employees: You can’t combine the extended illness bank (EIB) with PPL.

How to request leave

1. Notify your director or manager of the need to take a leave of absence.
2. Submit your request to Sedgwick at timeoff.sedgwick.com or by calling 844-263-3121.
3. Provide supporting documentation to Sedgwick (if required) by the deadline.

Your director or manager will determine approvals for personal, education and dependent care leave requests. Sedgwick will determine approvals for all other leaves.

How to return to work

Follow these steps through Occupational Health (not Sedgwick) to return to work:

1. Call Occupational Health two weeks before your expected return date to schedule an appointment to discuss returning to work. Occupational Health will tell you what documents you need.
2. Get a note from your provider or physician with your return-to-work date and any restrictions or accommodations you may need and how long you may need them. Bring the return-to-work information from your provider or physician to your appointment with Occupational Health.
3. Occupational Health will notify your manager or director if you have been cleared to return to work, with or without restrictions or accommodations.

If you’re not cleared to return to work, contact Sedgwick to extend your leave. If you are cleared, you must contact Sedgwick (leaves, short-term disability) and MetLife (long-term disability) to close out your leave and disability claims.