• Family Medical Leave – intended to complement the leave rights granted to staff by the Family Medical Leave Act and/or state laws. Family Medical Leave also includes the Duke-sponsored Paid Parental Leave that supports both male and female staff who are striving to balance the challenges of work and parenting.
  • Military Family Leave - care for servicemember who is recovering from a serious illness or injury sustained in the line of duty on active duty.
  • An eligible employee with a covered military member serving in the National Guard or Reserves manages their affairs while the member is on active duty in support of a contingency operation. This provision makes the normal 12 workweeks of FMLA job-protected leave available for: (1) Short-notice deployment; (2) Military events and related activities; (3) Childcare and school activities; (4) Financial and legal arrangements; (5) Counseling; (6) Rest and recuperation; (7) Post-deployment activities; and (8) Additional activities not encompassed in the other categories, but agreed to by the employer and employee.
    
• Personal Leave of Absence – designed to assist staff in their educational pursuits and for the pregnancies, illnesses, and injuries of staff ineligible for family medical leave.
• Military Leave of Absence – designed for Duke staff entering into active service with any branch of the US military.

Staff and their supervisors should thoroughly agree upon the conditions under which a leave is to be granted – with particular attention paid to the expected conditions of reemployment.

For more detailed information, please see Work Absences: Leaves of Absence.