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Title 29 — Labor

Chapter 28 — Family and Medical Leave

§ 2653. Encouragement of more generous leave policies

Statutory text

Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act shall be construed to discourage employers from adopting or retaining leave policies more generous than any policies that comply with the requirements under this Act or any amendment made by this Act.

Legislative history

Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.

  1. Pub. L. 103–3 title IV § 403 · 107 Stat. 6

    Enacted · 29 U.S.C. § 2653

    (Pub. L. 103–3, title IV, § 403, Feb. 5, 1993, 107 Stat. 26.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 103–3, title IV, § 403, Feb. 5, 1993, 107 Stat. 26.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    SEC. 403. ENCOURAGEMENT OF MORE GENEROUS LEAVE POLICIES. Nothing in this Act or any amendment made by this Act shall be construed to discourage employers from adopting or retaining leave policies more generous than any policies that comply with the requirements under this Act or any amendment made by this Act.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This Act, referred to in text, is Pub. L. 103–3, , 107 Stat. 6, known as the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, which enacted this chapter, sections 60m and 60n of Title 2, The Congress, and sections 6381 to 6387 of Title 5, Government Organization and Employees, amended section 2105 of Title 5, and enacted provisions set out as notes under section 2601 of this title. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 2601 of this title and Tables.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

Section effective 6 months after , see section 405(b)(1) of Pub. L. 103–3, set out as a note under section 2601 of this title.

Credits

(Pub. L. 103–3, title IV, § 403, , 107 Stat. 26.)

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