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Effective October 1, 2003, Connecticut employers will be required to allow employees to use up to two weeks of sick leave to attend to a serious health condition of the employee’s child, spouse or parent, or for the birth or adoption of a child. For purposes of the statute, “sick leave” means an absence from work for which compensation is provided through an employer’s bona fide written policy providing compensation for loss of wages occasioned by illness, but does not include absences from work for which compensation is provided through an employer’s plan, including, but not limited to, a short or long-term disability plan, whether or not such a plan is self-insured.

The new public act also allows employers to determine the twenty-four month period under which an employee may take state mandated leave in one of four ways: (1) consecutive calendar years; (2) any fixed twenty-four month period; (3) a twenty-four month period measured forward from an employee’s first day of leave; or (4) a rolling twenty-four month period measured backward from an employee’s first day of leave.