Easily Apply for Maternity Leave at Home Depot in 6 Steps

Home Depot is one of the largest home improvement chains in the world. Home Depot is expected to gross $44.853 billion in 2021, which is up from $37.572 billion in 2020, Home Depot hires workers in both a variety of part-time and full-time positions. The average worker makes $11/hour as a cashier and $12 an hour as a sales associate. Home Depot has also recently announced that it will invest $1 billion in giving employees consistent raises to its nearly 400,000 raises in the coming months and years.

Home Depot maternity leave and paternity leave benefits are also being offered to both female and male employees when they welcome a new child into their home through birth, surrogacy, adoption, or foster care. While many workers in many affluent countries enjoy maternity or paternity benefits as a standard benefit, many companies in America do not offer extended paid leave for new parents. The United States also lacks a uniform, federal program that will cover those workers whose companies do not offer paid leave for new parents.

What Maternity Benefits Do Home Depot Employees Receive?

Home Depot Inc. does indeed provide its employees with benefits for maternity and parental leave when they welcome new additions to their families. Employees who are both salaried and hourly are eligible for maternity or paternity benefits as soon as they are working for the company for at least one year prior to taking the leave.

Based on their job class and their salary type, individual employees are entitled to the following benefits:

• Salaried Female Workers

Salaried female workers are eligible for 6 weeks of paid maternity leave at 100% pay from their disability contributions.

• Hourly Female Workers

Hourly workers are eligible for up to 6 weeks of paid maternity leave at 60% of their hourly pay from their disability contributions.

• Salaried/Hourly Male Workers

Both salaried and hourly male workers are entitled to up to 6 weeks of parental leave.

• Part/Time Employees

Announced more recently, both part-time and full-time employees who have put in at least one year of service with Home Depot are eligible for a minimum of 6 weeks of maternity leave and another 6 weeks of paid parental leave.

These policies were announced effective as of July 1st, 2018 to allow employees to spend more time with their new family members as they are born (including by surrogacy), adopted, or fostered into their family.

Do Home Depot Employees Qualify for FMLA Leave?

Some Home Depot employees will qualify for benefits from the Federal Medical and Leave Act (FMLA), while others will not. It depends on the job the person does and the nature of their position when it comes to them qualifying for FMLA benefits or not. The following are the minimum requirements an employee must meet in order to qualify for FMLA benefits:

1. Work for a covered employer
2. 1,250 hours worked during the 12 months prior to the start of the leave
3. Working at a company with 50 or more employees working or within 75 miles of it
4. Worked for the employer for 12 months prior to taking leave

Home Depot does participate in the FMLA program, but some employees will be covered and others will not. For example, workers who are part-time or who have just started with the company when they need to take leave will not qualify for the FMLA benefits to pay them while they take time off.

What Reasons Does the FMLA Program Include When Your Employees Take Leave?

The FMLA program largely allows employees to take time to either care for an ailing immediate family member or to welcome a new child into their home. The following are the requirements that your situation must meet in order for Home Depot to cover your situation under the FMLA umbrella:

• The birth of a child and those who care for a newborn child within one year of birth
• The placement of a child for adoption or foster care by the employee within the last year
• To care for the employee's spouse, parent, or child with a serious illness
• A serious health condition that leaves them unable to perform essential functions of their jobs
• Any qualifying exigency arising out of the fact that the employee's spouse, son, daughter, or parent is a covered military member on "covered active duty

If you have questions when it comes to the FMLA covering your need for time off, talk to your HR department for more specific information on your personal situation. They can help you determine if the company paid leave or the FMLA program (or both) might cover your time off request for maternity or parental leave.

You can also check out DoNotPay's state guides about FMLA:

DoNotPay Can Help You Get a Note for Maternity Leave

If you are going to take Home Depot maternity leave, you will need to write a note to your employer to let them know that you will be away for an extended period of time. It can be challenging to explain this to your employer in a way that makes sense to them. If you are struggling to tell your employer that you will need this extended period of time off, do not fear as DoNotPay is here.

All you have to do is follow these 6 simple steps below to provide DoNotPay with some basic information and we will generate a letter and send it to your specified email address so that you can notify your employer of your intent to take an extended period of time off:

1. Tell us which state you work in (if you work in CA, NY, NJ, MA, WA, or DC, your state has a paid family leave program).

2. Choose whether you want us to apply to the program for you or contact your employer with your leave request. If you want to apply for the program, we will walk you through the questions on the form and mail the application form for you.

3. If you want us to contact your employer, enter your leave details, including the starting date, number of weeks of leave, and how many weeks of paid leave you are requesting (for example, you may take a 12 week leave, but only request 8 weeks of paid leave to make the request reasonable).

4. Indicate whether you are the birth parent or not (birth parents have a few additional protections).

5. Enter the name of your company and the person to address this request to.

6. Select whether you want us to email the request to your employer on your behalf.

DoNotPay will use the information you provide us to generate a letter for you that you can give your boss to tell them that you need time off. All you have to do is give a note to your employer to notify them of your need for time off. Then you can enjoy the time off that you need with your new child that is being welcomed by your family without worrying about telling your employer that you need that time you are entitled to.

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