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Employee providing care for seriously ill sibling? Consider agreeing to request for FMLA leave

01/21/2025

The FMLA provides job-protected leave so employees can care for a long list of close relatives, including spouses, children and parents. The law even allows leave to care for grandchildren and grandparents if there is an in loco parentis relationship between them. But what about siblings?

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