Vermont Parental and Family Leave Act (VPFLA)

Update (effective 07/01/25): Vermont’s unpaid Parental and Family Leave Act was updated earlier this year due to the passing of H.461. There were several updates to the covered leave reasons along with expanded definition of family members and below is a brief summary of the changes.

Leave coverage expanded to include:
– The employee’s pregnancy including recovery from childbirth or miscarriage
– Safe leave
– Qualifying exigency
– Bereavement leave

Employees may take up to 12 weeks of VPFLA for the covered reasons listed above in a 12 month period as of July 1, 2025. For bereavement leave, employees may take up to 2 weeks total from the 12 week available balance and cannot take more than 5 consecutive workdays at a time.

Expanded definition of family members now include:
– Employee’s spouse, civil union or domestic partner; child (including biological, adopted, foster, step, legal ward, or of the spouse/domestic partner); parent, legal guardian, grandparent, grandchild, siblings (including biological, adopted, foster, step, of the employee or their spouse/civil union/domestic partner); an individual whom the employee provides caregiving responsibilities similar of a parent-child relationship; a person whom the employee stands or stood in loco parentis prior to the person turning 18 years of age

Employers are required to post a workplace notice which can be found here under “Parental and Family Leave Poster”.

The Larkin Company will consider any law changes carefully, and update our internal resources and processes, as well as our employee leave information packets, if necessary.

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