"Employers and employees can agree to allow the employee to supplement PFL benefits up to their full salary or wages with accrued vacation, sick, personal, or other paid time off during the paid leave, enabling him or her to receive full salary.... [D]uring any period of PFL, employers must maintain the employee's existing health benefits for the duration of PFL as if the employee had continued to work (for a plan funded by insurance, this will require an amendment to the state insurance law mandating compliant policy provisions and, arguably, would be unenforceable as preempted by ERISA for a self-insured plan)."  MORE >>