Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
Programs
Name
Family and Medical Leave Act
Paid
no
Condition
Unpaid, job-protected leave with continuation of group health benefits. Up to 12 workweeks in a 12-month period for qualifying family and medical reasons; up to 26 workweeks in a single 12-month period of military caregiver leave. Covered employers: private-sector employers with 50 or more employees in 20 or more workweeks in the current or previous calendar year; public agencies and local educational agencies regardless of the number of employees. Eligible employees: at least 12 months with the employer, at least 1,250 hours of service in the 12 months before leave, and work at a location where the employer has at least 50 employees within 75 miles. The employer chooses the 12-month period method (29 CFR 825.200(b)).
The FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for qualifying family and medical reasons and requires continuation of their group health benefits under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. … For eligible employees, up to 12 workweeks of leave in a 12-month period for any of the following qualifying reasons: … An eligible employee who is the spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin of a covered servicemember with a serious injury or illness may take up to 26 workweeks of leave during a single 12-month period to care for the servicemember. … Private-sector employers who employ 50 or more employees in 20 or more workweeks in either the current calendar year or the previous calendar year,
Public agencies (including federal, state, and local government employers), regardless of the number of employees, and … Work for a covered employer for at least 12 months,
Have at least 1,250 hours of service with the employer during the 12 months before their FMLA leave starts, and
Work at a location where the employer has at least 50 employees within 75 miles.
An employer is permitted to choose any one of the following methods for determining the 12-month period in which the 12 weeks of leave entitlement described in paragraph (a) of this section occurs:
(1) The calendar year;
(2) Any fixed 12-month leave year, such as a fiscal year, a year required by State law, or a year starting on an employee's anniversary date;
(3) The 12-month period measured forward from the date any employee's first FMLA leave under paragraph (a) begins; or,
(4) A “rolling” 12-month period measured backward from the date an employee uses any FMLA leave as described in paragraph (a).
Temporary Disability Insurance (paid). Hawaii Family Leave Law (unpaid).
Version 2 · effective from · verified on
Verification: approved by a person (carried over from Juriset's first release).
Programs
Name
Temporary Disability Insurance
Paid
yes
Condition
To be eligible for TDI benefits, an employee must have at least 14 weeks of Hawaii employment during each of which the employee was paid for 20 hours or more and earned not less than $400 in the 52 weeks preceding the first day of disability. Statutory plan: benefits from the eighth day of disability for a maximum of 26 weeks, at 58% of the employee's average weekly wages up to the maximum weekly benefit amount annually set by the Division.
Annual max
26
Leave type
family_medical
Annual max unit
weeks
Name
Hawaii Family Leave Law
Paid
no
Condition
Applies to an employer who employs one hundred or more employees for each working day during each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year. Four-week period of family leave. If the employee has no accrued and available sick leave, and the employer provides no other paid leave, the family leave would be unpaid leave; employer must permit an employee to use up to 10 days of accrued and available sick leave for family leave purposes.
The Hawaii Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) law was enacted in 1969, which requires employers to provide partial “wage replacement” insurance coverage to their eligible employees for nonwork-related injury or sickness, including pregnancy. … To be eligible for TDI benefits, an employee must have at least 14 weeks of Hawaii employment during each of which the employee was paid for 20 hours or more and earned not less than $400 in the 52 weeks preceding the first day of disability. … the employee is entitled to disability benefits, from the eighth day of disability for a maximum of 26 weeks, at 58% of the employee’s average weekly wages up to the maximum weekly benefit amount annually set by this Division.
Upcoming changes
No published changes are waiting to take effect.
Change history
Federal: United States
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paid_leave in us: version 3, effective 2026-10-24, published (new)
Family and Medical Leave Act (unpaid).
State: Hawaii
Version
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2in effect
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paid_leave in us-hi: version 2, effective 2026-10-24, published (new)
Temporary Disability Insurance (paid). Hawaii Family Leave Law (unpaid).
The law applies to an employer who employs one hundred or more employees for each working day during each of twenty or more calendar weeks in the current or preceding calendar year. … An employee is a person who performs services for at least six consecutive months for wages under any contract of hire … If the employee has no accrued and available sick leave, and the employer provides no other paid leave, such as vacation, then the family leave would be unpaid leave. … HFLL specifies that an employer must permit an employee to use up to 10 days of accrued and available sick leave for family leave purposes. … the employee may substitute other paid leaves, such as vacation, for any part of the four-week period of family leave.