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Pregnancy Disability Leave Questions & Answers  What job protection and benefits do we need to continue for an employee on disability leave? Is a pregnant employee entitled to SDI? Do I have to continue sick leave and vacation while an employee is on pregnancy leave? Does a potential new hire have an obligation to tell me she is pregnant before I hire her? What notices and information do I have to give an employee about Pregnancy Disability Leave? What happens if an employee wants to take family leave after she just had pregnancy disability leave? Are baby bonding laws different in California? Is it legal to fire an employee who has been gone on eight months pregnancy leave? How much leave can a pregnant employee take? Do I have to give Pregnancy Disability Leave (PDL) to a new employee? Do I have to give an employee her job back after her return from maternity leave? Can I move an employee to another position because of her pregnancy? Can I ask for a note from a woman's doctor certifying that she is disabled by her pregnancy, or that she can come back to work? Is there a simple way I can figure out which leave of absence requests I must grant? We need to lay off the employees in our surveying department, but one of them is on Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) leave to bond with his new baby. Do we have to hold his job open for him? My employee had a baby last month and will be returning to work soon. Before her leave she worked full-time, but now she wants to work only part-time. What are my obligations to return her to work? If an employee on FMLA/CFRA does not turn in the required medical certification on time, can the company deny their leave and terminate them? We are an employer covered by the federal Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and California Family Rights Act (CFRA). If an employee has not been with us one year and worked 1,250 hours, is the employee eligible for baby bonding leave? An employee is asking if she can use her baby bonding leave by taking every Friday off for the next 12 weeks. Are we required to do that? Are we required to change an employee’s schedule to part-time during her baby bonding leave? If we allowed one employee to take baby bonding leave intermittently, are we required to provide other employees with the same provisions? Both parents of a newborn are employed by the same company. Are we required to give both of them baby bonding leave? Can we deny baby bonding leave to a father who is not married? Can we deny baby bonding leave when it is not convenient or would result in an undue hardship to the company? Our employee has not met the FMLA/CFRA requirements of having worked one year and 1,250 hours. Can we deny baby bonding leave? Does the employer have to continue health care benefits for a father who chooses to take the six-week paid family leave to bond with his newborn child? Does CFRA begin immediately after the baby is born or after PDL ends? What if there is a mandated or company holiday while the employee is out? Does it count toward the 88 days of PDL? Under PDL, do expectant fathers qualify for the same leave? How long must we hold a job open for an employee disabled by pregnancy, who is not eligible for family medical leave? Email Print Reprints