Environmental & Healthcare Legislative Watch50 States · D.C. · U.S. Congress
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An act to establish the mississippi paid family and medical leave act; To provide certain applicable definitions; To require the mississippi department of employment security to establish and administer a family and medical leave insurance program; To provide covered individuals with the right to paid family and medical leave; To determine the amount of family and medical leave insurance benefits for covered individuals; To create the family and medical leave insurance fund in the state treasury; To provide for the determination of insurance premiums by the state treasurer; To protect the employment of covered individuals while they are on leave; To prohibit employers from violating rights protected in this act; To require the director of the department to hold violating employers liable; To provide that this act is to be construed alongside similar provisions in the federal family and medical leave act; To require that claims be made in accordance with rules prescribed by the director of the department; To disqualify covered individuals from coverage for fraud, misrepresentation, or erroneous payment; To allow covered individuals to elect for initial coverage or subsequent coverage; To prescribe certain requirements for the formation and administration of the family and medical leave insurance program; To require certain actions by the department if the insurance benefits in this act are subject to federal income tax; To allow for intermittent or reduced leave; To require the department to make an annual report to the legislature; To require the department to conduct a public education campaign about the program; To encourage the department to collect data for the purpose of limiting the cost of the program; To require employers to provide written notice of the program to employees upon hiring and annually thereafter; To amend section 25-3-105, mississippi code of 1972, to conform to the provisions of this act; To bring forward sections 25-3-91, 25-3-92, 25-3-93 an
