Family, Medical and Parental Leaves Law Summaries

Family, Medical and Parental Leaves Law Summaries

Georgia, Family, Medical and Parental Leaves Law Summaries

Georgia has no general law dealing with family and medical leave. The state does have a statutory provision on maternity leave for teachers and other school personnel. This law is located in the Official Code of Georgia Annotated at Title 20, Chapter 2, Article 17, Part 4, Section 20-2-852.

The state also has a law authorizing employers to provide unpaid break time to allow nursing mothers to express breast milk. This law is summarized at ¶11-1400 .

The state has a law providing for leaves of absence for public officers and employees to serve as organ/bone marrow/blood donors (Official Code of Georgia Annotated, Title 45, Ch. 20, Art. 2) (see Employment Practices Guide ¶11-22,950.01 for full text).

WHAT THE EMPLOYER MUST DO

Organ/bone marrow/blood donation leave.- Each state, county, and municipal officer and employee in Georgia shall be allowed a leave of absence, without loss of pay, of not more than eight hours in each calendar year for the purpose of donating blood. This absence shall be computed at two hours per donation, up to four times per year. However, any such officer or employee who donates blood platelets or granulocytes through the plasmapheresis process shall be allowed a leave of absence, without loss of pay, of not more than 16 hours in each calendar year which shall be computed at four hours per donation, up to four times per year (Sec. 45-20-30).

Each employee of the state or of any branch, department, board, bureau, or commission of the state who serves as an organ donor for the purpose of transplantation will receive a leave of absence, with pay, of 30 days and such leave will not be charged against or deducted from any annual or sick leave and must be included as service in computing any retirement or pension benefits. The employee will not be entitled to such leave with pay unless he or she furnishes to his or her supervisor or other proper authority a statement from a medical practitioner who is to perform such transplantation procedure or from a hospital administrator that the employee is making an organ donation. If such donation does not occur, this section will not apply (Sec. 45-20-31(a), as amended by H. 1049, L. 2001).

Each employee of the state or of any branch, department, board, bureau, or commission of the state who serves as a bone marrow donor for the purpose of transplantation must receive a leave of absence, with pay, of seven days and such leave shall not be charged against or deducted from any annual or sick leave and shall be included as service in computing any retirement or pension benefits. The employee shall not be entitled to such leave of absence with pay unless he or she furnishes to his or her supervisor or other proper authority a statement from a medical practitioner who is to perform such transplantation procedure or from a hospital administrator that the employee is serving as a bone marrow donor as provided in this section. If such donation does not occur, this section does not apply (Sec. 45-20-31(b), as added by H. 1049, L. 2001).

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Georgia, Family, Medical and Parental Leaves Law Summaries

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