Massachusetts Crime Victims

Crime Victims Leave - Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 268, § 14B

Covered Employers: All employers

Employee Eligibility: Employees who are victims of a crime or who are subpoenaed to attend a criminal action as a witness.

Entitlement: An eligible employee may take time off from work to appear as a witness in a criminal proceeding.

Employer Notice: Not specified

Employee Notice: Yes, the employee must notify the employer of the need for leave prior to day of attendance

Obligation to Provide Certifications or Documents Supporting Need for Leave: Not specified.

Paid?: Not specified

Benefits: Not specified

Reinstatement: Employers may not discharge employees or subject them to threat of discharge or penalties because of attendance as witnesses at a criminal action.

Other Important Definitions/Requirements: Not specified

Relationship with Other Leave: Not specified

Absence Specifications

Concurrency

  • Only concurrent with Federal FMLA if there is an injury or illness that is an FMLA qualified event

Intake Trigger

  • Personal Protected Leave

Employer Eligibility requirements

  • All employers

Employee Eligibility requirements

  • 0 hours worked

  • 0 months of employment

  • Myself

  • Will you be attending court as a victim or a witness = yes

Length of time provided

  • Amount necessary. (open) - per 12 month period