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Committee asks counsel to draft bill preventing concurrent parental-family leave and workers' compensation
Summary
Legislative Counsel outlined a short-form bill to stop employers from running parental and family leave concurrently with workers' compensation; the committee asked counsel to draft language that could include an employer-size threshold and to return with examples and potential testimony. No vote was taken.
Legislative Counsel Sophie Zdapny told the House Committee on General and Housing on Feb. 5 that a short-form measure under consideration would prevent employers from running parental and family leave concurrently with workers' compensation leave.
"The goal being that employers not run...the entitlement to unpaid leave under the parental family leave...not run concurrently," Zdapny said during a presentation explaining the policy and legal context. She summarized the differences between the two systems: workers' compensation is a no-fault, paid remedy that typically provides medical cost coverage and replacement wages (often around…
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