North Carolina Leave for Parental Involvement in Schools N.C.G.S. § 95-28.3

Covered Employers: All Employers

Employee Eligibility: All Employees

Entitlement: Employers shall grant four hours per year leave to any employee who is a parent, guardian, or person standing in loco parentis of a school-aged child so that the employee may attend or otherwise be involved at that child's school.

Employee Notice: The employer may require an employee to provide the employer with a written request for the leave at least 48 hours before the time desired for the leave

Obligation to Provide Certifications or Documents Supporting Need for Leave: The employer may require that the employee furnish written verification from the child's school that the employee attended was otherwise involved at that school during the time of the leave.

Paid?: Nothing in this section shall require an employer to pay an employee for leave taken under this section.

Reinstatement: Not specified, but employers shall not discharge, demote, or otherwise take an adverse employment action against an employee who requests or takes leave under this section.

Other Important Definitions/Requirements: The leave shall be at a mutually agreed upon time between the employer and the employee.
For the purpose of this section, "school" means any (i) public school, (ii) private church
school, church of religious charter, or nonpublic school described in Parts 1 and 2 of Article 39
of Chapter 115C of the General Statutes that regularly provides a course of grade school
instruction, (iii) preschool, and (iv) child care facility.

Absence Specification