Employers in Illinois will have to provide two weeks of unpaid leave for workers who experience pregnancy loss, failed adoptions, unsuccessful reproductive procedures, and other diagnoses or events affecting pregnancy and fertility, under a new measure signed into law by Gov. JB Pritzker (D).
The Family Bereavement Leave Act (SB 3120), signed into law Thursday, requires unpaid leave for a miscarriage, unsuccessful round of intrauterine insemination or other assisted reproductive procedure, a failed or non-finalized adoption, a failed surrogacy agreement, a diagnosis affecting fertility, or a stillbirth. The requirement applies to companies with 50 or more employees.
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