The Family and Medical Leave Act generally provides eligible employees up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to treat a serious medical condition, to care for a newborn child, or to allow the employee to care for a spouse, child, or parent who has a serious health condition. During this period the employee's job is protected and any group health insurance coverage the employee had is continued.

November 2017 marks the third month in a row where filings have been falling. Case filings are down 38.5 percent over the last three months. While there is natural month to month variation in filings, litigation levels had generally been slowly rising. In fact, the number of filings for over a year had not fallen below a level of at least 100 new cases each month.

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