FMLA entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified medical or family medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. Eligible employees are entitled to:

Twelve workweeks of leave in a 12-month period for:
the birth of a child and to care for the newborn child within one year of birth; the placement of a child for adoption or foster care and to care for newly placed child within one year of placement;
to care for the employee’s spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition;
a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the essential functions of his or her job;
any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee’s spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military member on “covered active duty;” or
Twenty-six workweeks of leave during a single 12-month period to care for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness if the eligible employee is the service member’s spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin (military caregiver leave).

A basic video explaining FMLA can be found here!

Receiving pay during FMLA - FMLA leave is unpaid unless you use one or more of your paid leave options. Possible pay continuation options include:
Trident Paid Parental Leave (for childbirth and bonding with a new child through birth or adoption)
State paid programs (such as WA-PFML)
Accrued Sick
Accrued Vacation
Supplemental programs (Voluntary Short-Term Disability Insurance, if enrolled)
Worker’s Compensation
Please note: Unless you are receiving pay through a paid benefit program - such as a state paid benefit or worker injury compensation, you are required to use your accrued sick and vacation to the extent that it does not interfere with the paid benefit program. Total paid leave benefits may not exceed 100% of your base wages. For further information regarding time off for family or medical leave, please refer to the most current Leave of Absence Policy.

After you have exhausted all of your paid leave you will be placed in an unpaid status.
For childbirth and bonding with a new child coming into your family through birth, adoption or foster placement AND you work OUTSIDE Washington State, go to Trident Paid Parental Leave page.
For the care of a family member with a serious health condition or injury, bonding with a new child coming into your family through birth, adoption or foster placement, recovery or treatment for your own serious health condition or injury, including recovery from childbirth, AND you work INSIDE Washington State, go to Washington Paid Family & Medical Leave page.