{"id":14628,"date":"2020-10-20T14:37:20","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T18:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/?page_id=14628"},"modified":"2025-10-22T08:01:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T12:01:46","slug":"paid-family-and-medical-leave","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid Family and Medical Leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BU recognizes that employees may need time away from work for personal medical and family concerns.<\/p>\n<p>To provide peace of mind as employees juggle home and work demands, BU offers paid family and medical leaves to employees.<\/p>\n<p>These benefits provide paid leave for two purposes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Personal medical leave applies if your own illness or injury prevents you from working for a week or more<\/li>\n<li>Family leave applies if you need time to attend to family health concerns, the arrival of a child, or certain matters related to military service<\/li>\n<li>All leave benefits are administered by Sedgwick.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All leave benefits fully comply with or exceed the new Massachusetts Family and Medical Leave Act (MAPFL) requirements.<\/p>\n<table width=\"410\" height=\"26\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How to Access Benefits and Contact Sedgwick<\/strong><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/for-full-time-faculty\/how-to-access-benefits-faculty\/\">Full-Time Faculty<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/for-part-time-faculty\/how-to-access-benefits-for-faculty\/\">Part-Time Faculty<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/for-staff\/how-to-access-benefits\/\">Staff<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/for-bu-medical-group-providers\/how-to-access-benefits\/\">BUMG<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/health-wellness\/paid-family-and-medical-leave\/for-temporary-and-former-employees\/how-to-access-benefits\/\">Temporary\u00a0 and Former Employees<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BU recognizes that employees may need time away from work for personal medical and family concerns. To provide peace of mind as employees juggle home and work demands, BU offers paid family and medical leaves to employees. These benefits provide paid leave for two purposes: Personal medical leave applies if your own illness or injury [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1379,"featured_media":0,"parent":13,"menu_order":8,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14628"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1379"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14628"}],"version-history":[{"count":21,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14628\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24800,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14628\/revisions\/24800"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/13"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}