Please upgrade your Flash Player

Latest Update: Saturday, July, 19th 2008

To amend the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to eliminate an hours of service requirement for benefits under that Act.

5/13/2008--Introduced.

Family Fairness Act of 2008 - Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to make an employee eligible for coverage under such Act if that employee has been employed for at least 12 months by a covered employer with respect to whom such leave is requested. (Eliminates the requirement, under current law, that the employee have served at least 1,250 hours during the 12-month period before the leave request.)

Latest Actions
  • 06/04/2008 - Referred to the Subcommittee on Federal Workforce, Post Office, and the District of Columbia.
  • 05/13/2008 - Referred to the Committee on Education and Labor, and in addition to the Committees on Oversight and Government Reform, and House Administration, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
  • 05/13/2008 - Referred to House Education and Labor
  • 05/13/2008 - Referred to House Oversight and Government Reform
  • 05/13/2008 - Referred to House House Administration
Bill Text
File name Last Updated
H.R.6029 Introduced in House05/15/2008