31 insurance pays cash benefits directly to the policyholder (unless otherwise assigned), and the policyholder decides how or when to use the money. These benefits are optional and are covered 100% by the employee's payroll contributions. Most plans are offered to full time and part time employees that have worked for the company for over 60 continuous days. You will receive information in the mail when you become eligible. For more information about your existing account with Aflac, call 1-800-488-1771. For more information about your existing account with Colonial Life, call 1-800-325-4368. For questions or to check the status of your eligibility, email [email protected] 7.7 Family and Medical Leave (FMLA) In accordance with the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA), New England Security provides up to 12 or 26 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in a 12-month period to covered employees in certain circumstances. Eligibility To qualify for FMLA leave, you must: 1. Have worked for the Company for at least 12 months, although it need not be consecutive; 2. Worked at least 1,250 hours in the last 12 months; and 3. Be employed at a worksite that has 50 or more employees within 75 miles. Leave Entitlement You may take up to 12 weeks of unpaid FMLA leave in a 12-month period for any of the following reasons: • The birth of a child and in order to care for that child (leave must be completed within one year of the child's birth); • The placement of a child with you for adoption or foster care and in order to care for the newly placed child (leave must be completed within one year of the child's placement); • To care for a spouse, child, or parent with a serious health condition; • To care for your own serious health condition, which makes you unable to perform any of the essential functions of your position; or • A qualifying exigency of a spouse, child, or parent who is a military member on covered active duty or called to covered active duty status (or has been notified of an impending call or order to covered active duty). You may take up to 26 weeks of unpaid FMLA leave in a single 12-month period, beginning on the first day that you take FMLA leave to care for a spouse, child, or next of kin who is a covered service member and who has a serious injury or illness related to active duty service. As used in the policy: • Spouse means a husband or wife as recognized under state law for the purposes of marriage in the state or other territory or country where the marriage took place. • Child means a biological, adopted, or foster child, a stepchild, a legal ward, or a child of a person standing in loco parentis, who is either under age 18 or age 18 or older and incapable of self-care because of a mental or physical disability at the time FMLA leave is to commence. A child for the purposes of military exigency or military care leave can be of any age. • Parent means a biological, adoptive, step, or foster parent or any other individual who stood in loco parentis to you when you were a child. • Next of kin for the purposes of military care leave is a blood relative other than a spouse, parent, or child in the following order: brothers and sisters, grandparents, aunts and uncles, and first cousins. If a
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