The NYS Paid Family Leave Act of 2016 provides eligible employees job-protected and paid time off to care for new borns, adopted and foster children. Additionally, paid time off is provided to care for a family member with a serious health condition and to assist family members in helping spouses, domestic partners, children or parents deployed abroad on active military services. Effective October 2021, the definition of family member was expanded to include siblings. Read more in The Gold Book.