DOVER – Employees around Delaware have been paying into a statewide family and medical leave program for a year and, come Jan. 1, they will finally gain access to Delaware paid leave in the event of a crisis, military deployment, the arrival of a new child or other situation.

The program upgrades the well-known Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) for employees in Delaware, one of 13 states with such a program that now allows employees to receive some of their wages during a period of leave.

FMLA was federally established more than 30 years ago by the Clinton Administration in February 1993. At the time, it provided up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave in a 12-month period for situations such as the birth, placement of a child or serious health conditions involving the employee or a family memb

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