Applying for paid family or medical leave if you have multiple employers

If you work for multiple employers, you may be able to take leave from all jobs or just some. Here's how the process will work.

Applying for PFML with Multiple Employers

If you work for multiple employers, you may be able to take leave from all jobs or just some. You must submit separate applications for each job from which you seek to take PFML leave. For example, someone seeking to take paid leave from two employers would submit two separate applications and get two separate benefit decisions. Learn more about applying for paid leave. 

To determine if you are financially eligible for paid leave, DFML will look at your past your wages from eligible employers, even if you are only taking leave from one of them. Regardless of how many employers you have, you are subject to the maximum weekly benefit amount cap. 

The maximum amount of combined family and medical leave you can take each benefit year is 26 weeks across all your jobs. Learn more about how much leave you can take for different eligible reasons.

Your leave allowance is dependent on the number of hours you work in a week and it is prorated accordingly. 

For example, if you work 6 hours a day, Monday through Friday every week at Employer A and 8 hours per day on Saturdays at Employer B, working an average total of 38 hours per week, you will have a total of 26 weeks of leave available across both jobs. 

In practice, you could take 26 weeks (a week meaning Monday through Thursday 6 hours a day) from Employer A and 26 Saturdays from Employer B. You could take this time all together or take it at just one employer or the other. 

It is important to track your leave allowances both in total and for each employer, so you don’t apply for more leave at one employer than you are allowed. If you ask your employer to top off your PFML payments with PTO, you must inform your employer of other weekly PFML benefits. This includes other PTO benefits used if you have any other active PFML leaves. DFML will not inform your employer of wages you earned from other employers.