ii.   Senior Lecturers and Senior Preceptors

Forms of support for Senior Lecturers and Senior Preceptors

Leave benefits for Senior Lecturers and Senior Preceptors are summarized in the table below, followed by a description of each benefit.

Please contact your associate dean for faculty affairs for information on how to request these leaves.

    a/ University MAPFML Medical Leave:  This benefit allows senior lecturers and senior preceptors to take up to 26 weeks of medical leave at full pay due to their own medical condition, including recovery from childbirth. Typically, 8 weeks of medical leave are granted for recovery from non-complicated childbirth.

     b/ University MAPFML Bonding Leave:  The University’s MAPFML Bonding Leave benefit provides new parents (by birth, foster placement, or adoption) with up to 12 weeks of paid time off (i.e., up to 4 weeks fully paid and up to 8 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) within the first 12 months after the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child.

     c/ Other types of MAPFML Family Leave: In addition to the leaves described in a/ through b/ above, MAPFML Family Leave also includes Family Care Leave, Military Exigency Leave, and Military Care Leave. Eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of Family Leave in total, across all types of Family Leave, per benefit period; however, eligible employees may take up to 26 weeks of Military Care Leave per benefit period.

• Family Care Leave: eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of Family Leave (i.e., up to 4 weeks fully paid and up to 8 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) to care for a covered family member with a serious health condition.
• Military Exigency Leave: eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of Family Leave (i.e., up to 4 weeks fully paid and up to 8 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) for a qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that a family member is on active duty or has been notified of an impending call or order to active duty in the Armed Forces.
• Military Care Leave: eligible employees may take up to 26 weeks of Family Leave (i.e., up to 4 weeks fully paid and up to 22 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) to provide care to a covered family member who is a covered servicemember.

iii.  Forms of support for FAS multi-year non-professorial faculty of certain ranks and multi-year researchers of certain ranks

This category includes: College Fellows, and those with multi-year appointments as lecturer, preceptor, associate senior lecturer, Benjamin Peirce Fellow, or Briggs-Copeland Lecturer (if that title is not dependent upon an administrative appointment), as well as Senior Research Fellows, Senior Research Scientists, Research Scientists, and Research Associates.

Leave benefits for faculty and researchers in these ranks are summarized in the table below, followed by a description of each benefit. Please contact your associate dean for faculty affairs for information on how to request these leaves. Research Associates may also visit the website of the FAS Office of Postdoctoral Affairs https://postdoc.fas.harvard.edu/medical-leave for more information.

     a/ University MAPFML Medical Leave:  This benefit allows multi-year non-professorial faculty of certain ranks and multi-year researchers of certain ranks to take up to 20 weeks of medical leave (i.e., up to 8 weeks fully paid and up to 12 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) due to their own medical condition, including recovery from childbirth. Typically, 8 weeks of medical leave are granted for recovery from non-complicated childbirth.

   b/  University MAPFML Bonding Leave:  The University’s MAPFML Bonding Leave benefit provides new parents (by birth, foster placement, or adoption) with up to 12 weeks of paid time off (i.e., up to 4 weeks fully paid and up to 8 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) within the first 12 months after the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child.

    c/ Other types of MAPFML Family Leave: In addition to the leaves described in a/ through b/ above, MAPFML Family Leave also includes Family Care Leave, Military Exigency Leave, and Military Care Leave. Eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of Family Leave in total, across all types of Family Leave, per benefit period; however, eligible employees may take up to 26 weeks of Military Care Leave per benefit period.

• Family Care Leave: eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of Family Leave (i.e., up to 4 weeks fully paid and up to 8 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) to care for a covered family member with a serious health condition.
• Military Exigency Leave: eligible employees may take up to 12 weeks of Family Leave (i.e., up to 4 weeks fully paid and up to 8 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) for a qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that a family member is on active duty or has been notified of an impending call or order to active duty in the Armed Forces.
   
• Military Care Leave: eligible employees may take up to 26 weeks of Family Leave (i.e., up to 4 weeks fully paid and up to 22 weeks partially paid, at MAPFML calculation*) to provide care to a covered family member who is a covered servicemember.