Note: This law only applies to the Tribe as an employer.

Overview

Mashantucket Pequot Family and Medical Leave Law (MFML Law), Title 51 M.P.T.L., provides leave and workplace protections to eligible employees of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribe (Tribe) who require time away from work to attend to family or medical issues.

Depending on the reason for the qualifying leave, an eligible employee of the Tribe may receive 12, 14, or 26 workweeks of unpaid leave during a 12-month period, specifically:

1. 12 workweeks of leave for one or more of the following reasons:
   1. The birth or placement (adoption or foster care) of a child and care for the child within the first year after birth or placement.
   2. The needed care of a family member with a qualifying serious health condition.
   3. The employee’s own qualifying serious health condition that makes them unable to perform their job.
   4. Human organ or bone marrow donation.
   5. Because of a qualifying exigency related to a family member’s military deployment.
2. An additional 2 workweeks of continuous leave for the employee’s own qualifying serious health condition; and
3. 26 workweeks of leave for an eligible employee who is a family member or next of kin of a current or veteran covered servicemember with a serious injury or illness, to care for the covered servicemember. The combined total leave under the MFML Law in a 12-month period may not exceed 26 weeks.

The MERO’s responsibilities include 1) educating Tribal employers and employees about the requirements and benefits of the law, 2) receiving and conciliating complaints; and 3) enforcing conciliation agreements approved by the MERO.

Click here to go to the MFML Law page.