Maine LD 575: An Act To Ensure Equitable Access To The Paid Family And Medical Leave Benefits Program By Removing The Requirement That Leave Must Be Scheduled To Prevent Undue Hardship On The Employer

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132nd MAINE LEGISLATURE
FIRST REGULAR SESSION-2025
Legislative DocumentNo. 575
S.P. 256In Senate, February 25, 2025
An Act to Ensure Equitable Access to the Paid Family and Medical 
Leave Benefits Program by Removing the Requirement That Leave 
Must Be Scheduled to Prevent Undue Hardship on the Employer
Received by the Secretary of the Senate on February 19, 2025.  Referred to the Committee 
on Labor pursuant to Joint Rule 308.2 and ordered printed.
DAREK M. GRANT
Secretary of the Senate
Presented by Senator TIPPING of Penobscot.
Cosponsored by Representative: ROEDER of Bangor.

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1Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:
2Sec. 1.  26 MRSA §850-B, sub-§7, as enacted by PL 2023, c. 412, Pt. AAA, §7, is 
3amended to read:
47.  Notice to employer.  Absent an emergency, illness or other sudden necessity for 
5taking leave, an employee shall give reasonable notice to the employee's supervisor of the 
6employee's intent to use leave under this subchapter. Use of such leave must be scheduled 
7to prevent undue hardship on the employer as reasonably determined by the employer. If 
8an  employer  fails  to  provide  notice  as  required  under  section  850‑I,  the  employee's 
9obligation to provide notice under this subsection is waived.
10SUMMARY
11This  bill  amends  the  law  governing  paid  family  and  medical  leave  to  remove  the 
12provision that the leave must be scheduled to prevent undue hardship on the employer. 
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