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[Music] maternity leave is complicated this video will make it simple stick around because I'm going to explain all the basic laws that pregnant employees in California need to know [Music] you [Music] generally yes employers must let women take maternity leave but the law is not that simple so let's take a look first up on our list is the Family Medical Leave Act or FMLA FMLA is a federal law that lets women take 12 weeks of maternity leave in any 12-month span and you don't have to take all of that leave at one time you can take it intermittently and what that means is you can take the lead as you need to take a week here a week there depending on your needs now fmy isn't just for the ladies men if you have a child and you want to take a couple weeks after the baby is born to bond with that child under FMLA you are allowed to very important thing to know about FMLA is when you take maternity leave it is unpaid but in California we have this cool thing called paid family leave so stick around you're going to want to learn a little bit more about that so what exactly does FMLA let you take leave for what is maternity leave mean well you can take lead for prenatal care obviously you can take leave for the childbirth bonding with that child after the baby is born and it's very importantly you can take a leave of action for pregnancy disability but we're going to talk a lot more about pregnancy disability leave in a minute finally you can take a leave of absence under FMLA to care for a foster child that is placed in your home or if you adopt a child you can take a leave of absence now what's really important to know that FMLA doesn't apply to all employers in the United States it only applies to employers that have 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius of your place of work so if you work at an office in within 75 miles they've got 50 or more employees FMLA applies to that employer they have to let you take your leave of absence and they have to hold your job open for when you come back also equally important is you have to have worked for that company for at least 12 months and during that 12 months you must have put in at least 1,250 hours which is a little bit more than basic part time finally there's a another law out there that a lot of people hear about which is the California Family Rights Act CFRA that is the California State equivalent to FMLA largely mirrors that statute the only deviations that are there aren't that important for a basic video pregnancy disability leave or PDL this is all about when a woman has become disabled as a result...