Time Off Made Easy

An estimated 15% of American workers take a leave of absence each year - to take care of themselves or a family member. You're in good company.

Common Reasons to Need Extended Time Off

Find out how much time you can take off when expecting a new baby, dealing with a serious medical issue such as surgery or cancer, caretaking for a family member, suffering from the loss of a family member, or doing your civic duty.

Medical Leave

Find out your leave options when dealing with chronic sickness or health issues.

Maternity and Paternity Leave

Learn about your rights and options for taking time off to support family members.

Caretaking Leave

Find out your leave options when dealing with chronic sickness or health issues.

About

Every year, millions of expectant parents waste precious hours researching this very question.

Some of these parents are lucky enough to have friends, colleagues, or knowledgeable HR professionals to answer correctly. But many, especially those working at smaller companies, do not get correct or complete information, resulting in either a shorter leave, unclaimed pay, or in the worse case, the loss of their jobs.

Why is it so hard to answer this question?

There are multiple laws that can impact the answer - some written at the state level, and some written at the federal level. In order to answer this seemingly simple question, you need to know how all of these laws interact with each other, and what are the common interpretations of some parts of the law.

The laws are so complex, that not even HR professionals understand them.

In some states, as many as half of surveyed small business owners were not familiar with their state family and medical leave laws. Read the report by Main Street Alliance here. In that same state, only 53% of employees were aware of these laws - read this Rutgers University report for more details.

While the most popular internet search engines (we've tried Google) and the most popular AI chatbots (we've tried ChatGPT) now provide a good starting point for your search, we can advise you on what questions to ask, and how to provide just enough information to truly get the real answer for your scenario.

This site will guide you to ask the right questions and give the relevant details needed in order to get the right answer for you. After doing your research, guided by our site, you should always talk to your manager or HR person (or both, if you have access to them!) If the information you find online is different from what your manager or HR person says, you should talk to them openly about why that might be.

"How much time can I take off from work?"

”This was way easier to understand than the flyers my company gave me about maternity leave..”

- Yocelyn