2018 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Surveys
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About the Study
The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) allows eligible employees working for covered employers to take up to 12 work weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave for certain family and medical reasons.
To gain knowledge of how employees and employers understand and experience FMLA, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) surveyed employees and employers in 1995, 2000, 2012, and 2018. The 2018 surveys consisted of two separate surveys, one for employees and one for worksites. Interviews were conducted by phone and online. The 4,470 employees surveyed were working-age adults employed in the public or private sector in the 12 months prior to the survey. The worksite survey consisted of 2,206 employers, both covered and uncovered by FMLA.
To learn more about the previous waves of surveys, visit the 2012 Family and Medical Leave Act Surveys and the Public Use Data Lake (PUDL) which includes survey files from 2000 and 1995.
More About the 2018 FMLA Surveys
- What are the primary reasons for employees using FMLA-qualifying leave?
- What are the patterns of FMLA coverage, awareness, and use among employees, and how are they the same or different across the four survey waves?
- What are employers’ FMLA policies and practices?
- What are employers’ administrative and management practices related to FMLA, and how are they similar or different across the four survey waves?
- Executive Summary for Results from the 2018 Surveys (Executive Summary, August 2020)
- Results from the 2018 Surveys (Final Report, August 2020)
- Supplemental Results from the 2018 Surveys (Supplemental Results, August 2020)
- Methodology Report for the 2018 Surveys (Methodology Report, August 2020)
- Methodology Report Appendices for the 2018 Surveys (Methodology Report Appendices, August 2020)
- Who is Eligible? (Study Brief, August 2020)
- Employee Leave-Taking Patterns (Study Brief, August 2020)
- Paid Leave (Study Brief, August 2020)
- Public Use Data for 2018 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Surveys (Public Use Data, August 2020)
- Gender Differences in Needing and Taking Leave (Short Paper, January 2021)
- Leave Experiences of Low Wage Workers (Short Paper, January 2021)
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