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The bill makes it easier for workers to take FMLA leave by broadening timing flexibility but increases costs, staffing challenges, and legal uncertainty for employers, particularly small businesses.
Parents, family caregivers, healthcare workers, and employees with serious health conditions gain broader timing flexibility and face fewer procedural barriers to taking FMLA leave, making it easier to obtain needed or intermittent leave.
Small businesses and other employers face increased uncertainty, administrative burden, and potential staffing gaps and costs from longer or differently timed FMLA absences, which can shift work onto coworkers and raise operational expenses.
Employees and employers may face more litigation and disputes over the scope and application of FMLA timing because the previously specified timing rule was removed without clarifying regulations.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Repeals the specific time‑limitation provision in the Family and Medical Leave Act that had governed when employees could take FMLA leave. The change removes that statutory timing rule, which broadens or otherwise alters the temporal scope of FMLA leave rights and may change when eligible workers can begin or use leave and how employers must track and approve timing of leave.
Removes a specific statutory time‑limitation in the FMLA, altering when eligible employees may take FMLA leave.
Introduced December 3, 2025 by Joni Ernst · Last progress December 3, 2025