Updated 5\/2016<\/p>\n
1.\u00a0 Responsible Office: Geisel School of Medicine Dean\u2019s Office (Dean of the Faculty at\u00a0Geisel) and The Geisel Fiscal Office (Director of Finance; or their designee).<\/p>\n
2.\u00a0 Applicability: All benefits-eligible (>0.5 FTE) Geisel faculty and Nonfaculty Academics (NFAs:\u00a0 Distinguished Fellows, Research\u00a0Scientists\/Analysts\/Engineers, and Research Associates) who are paid by\u00a0Dartmouth College and do not qualify for staff benefits related to parental leave provided by Dartmouth College.<\/p>\n
3.\u00a0 Policy and Procedure:<\/p>\n
a. The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) of 1993 provides eligible\u00a0faculty a total of twelve work weeks of paid and\/or unpaid leave during any twelve\u00a0month period for specific reasons. Dartmouth College FMLA policy stipulates:<\/p>\n
An eligible faculty member or NFA may also take up to twenty-six (26) work weeks of leave during a \u201csingle 12-month period\u201d to care for a covered service member with a serious injury or illness if the eligible employee is the service member\u2019s spouse, son, daughter, parent, or next of kin (military caregiver leave).<\/p>\n
To be eligible for FMLA, the faculty member\/NFA\u00a0 must have worked at least 12 months (which do not have to be consecutive) for Dartmouth College; and must\u00a0 must have worked at a 0.625 FTE or greater during the entire 12-month period preceding the start of the leave.<\/p>\n
Faculty and NFAs who are employees of Dartmouth College should contact the Human Resources Benefits Office at Disability@dartmouth.edu<\/a>\u00a0or call 603-646-6825 for information on how to apply for FMLA.<\/p>\n b. Geisel Faculty and NFAs who meet applicability criteria above are entitled to twelve (12) weeks of flexible time at 100% pay (for the given fractional FTE of employment) for one parent at the time of arrival of the new infant. This time is available beginning four (4) weeks before the due date and up to and through twentysix (26) weeks after the birth or adoption. Flexible time means that the leave could be 12 weeks at 0% effort or, as another example, 10 weeks at 0% effort plus 4 weeks at 50% effort in a time period contiguous with those 10 weeks.<\/p>\n To apply for parental leave benefits, the faculty member or NFA must notify the Principal Investigator\u00a0or person responsible for their usual source of support, the Departmental Chairperson, and the Geisel Dean's Office (Dean of the Faculty at Geisel and the Senior Director of Finance or their designee). This must be done no later than the 26th week of pregnancy, or two weeks prior to a scheduled adoption date.<\/p>\n For faculty members and NFAs who have salary support and fringe benefits provided by the NIH<\/a>, parental leave for the\u00a0birth or adoption of a child is an allowable cost for a period of 12 weeks. Such costs to\u00a0NIH research grants should be allocated to the project on the basis of relative effort and\u00a0duration on the project. In cases of Principal Investigator absence from the project for\u00a060 days or longer, additional actions may be necessary to assure adequate oversight and\u00a0management of the project. Please consult OSP and your NIH Program Official and NIH\u00a0Grant Management Officer.<\/p>\n