Under existing law, state employees in the public service are entitled to certain types of leave, including, without limitation, annual, sick and disability leave and leaves of absence under certain provisions. (NRS 284.355, 284.360) Section 1 of this bill provides that an employee of the Executive Department of the State Government is entitled to take 8 weeks of paid family leave over the course of a 12-month period to: (1) bond with a newborn child of the employee or a newborn child of the domestic partner of the employee; (2) bond with a newly adopted child of the employee; (3) recover from or undergo treatment for a serious illness; (4) care for a seriously ill member of the immediate family of the employee; or (5) participate in a qualifying event resulting from the military deployment to a foreign country of an immediate family member of the employee. To be eligible for such paid family leave, section 1 provides that an employee must: (1) be employed by the State for not less than 12 consecutive months; (2) have accrued not less than 40 hours of sick leave; and (3) have used any accrued sick leave in excess of 40 hours before taking paid family leave. Section 1 further: (1) requires an appointing authority to pay an employee on paid family leave 50 percent of the regular wage the employee would have earned if the employee was not on leave; and (2) prohibits the appointing authority or designee of the appointing authority from denying an eligible employee paid family leave or retaliating or taking any adverse action against an employee for taking paid family leave. Section 2 of this bill makes a conforming change to provide that an employee may use his or her sick leave for the purposes set forth in section 1 before taking paid family leave. Section 3 of this bill makes a conforming change to provide that the provisions authorizing an employee to be granted a leave of absence without pay do not affect the rights of an employee to take paid family leave. Section 3.5 of this bill makes an appropriation to the Department of Administration for the costs of computer programming to carry out the provisions of this bill.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 284.355, 284.360
Reprint 1: 284.355, 284.360
Reprint 2: 284.355, 284.360
As Enrolled: 284.355, 284.360
BDR: 284.355, 284.360