Leaves

The Parental Leave policy provides eligible colleagues with the opportunity for extended paid time off, to bond with a newborn or newly adopted child. Learn more on the Parental Leave page.

Salary Continuation is a Short-Term Disability benefit provided to eligible employees who are medically disabled for more than one week of consecutive full workdays. It allows employees to receive all or part of their salary for up to 25 weeks (excluding a one-week waiting period) in a 12-month period. For more information, review the Salary Continuation Policy

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) entitles an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of job-protected unpaid leave in a rolling 12-month period.

For more information, review the FMLA policy.

Bereavement leave provides paid time off (PTO) if you experience the death of a family member. Here are some more details:

• For the death of spouse, domestic partner, child or stillbirth: Up to 20 consecutive days off with pay based on individual circumstance and business need; additional time off requires the leader’s approval and is taken from the employee’s accrued PTO.
• For the death of all other family or household members: Up to 5 consecutive days off with pay based on individual circumstances and business need; additional time off requires the leader’s approval and is taken from the employee’s accrued PTO.

For more information, review the full Bereavement Leave Policy.

New Hire Medical Leave provides unpaid time off for eligible colleagues who do not qualify for other leaves. For more details, read the New Hire Medical Leave Policy.

Unpaid Medical Leave provides time off if you are unable to return to work after exhausting your Salary Continuation benefits. Get all the details by reviewing the full Unpaid Medical Leave Policy.

Amex supports colleagues who participate in military service through several leave and benefit policies. Military leave may be granted in many circumstances, including when you are required to participate in training duty of any branch of the U.S. military or are called up for active duty as a reservist.

The leave will be either paid or unpaid depending on how long you’ve been with Amex.

• Paid military leave: Paid military leave is for colleagues with one year or more of consecutive service with Amex immediately prior to the first day of military leave. Paid leave is for a maximum of 18 months taken either consecutively or over several periods. After 18 months of paid leave, subsequent military leaves will be unpaid.
• Unpaid military leave: Unpaid military leave is for colleagues with less than one year of consecutive service with Amex immediately prior to the first day of military leave, or who have exhausted available paid military leave and have either exhausted or elected not to use other available paid time off options. 

For details, review the full Military Leave Policy.

California has a unique Paid Family Leave policy. If you live in California, this leave provides a partial wage replacement plan for up to eight weeks each year if you need to take time off to:

• Care for a seriously ill child, spouse, parent, parent-in-law, grandparent, grandchild, sibling or domestic partner.
• Bond with a new child due to birth, adoption or foster care placement.
• Participate in a life qualifying event because of the military deployment of a spouse, registered domestic partner, parent or child to a foreign country.

For more information, review the full California Paid Family Leave Policy.

New York Paid Family Leave (NYPFL) is a benefit funded by state-mandated employee contributions and entitles an eligible Amex employee to take job-protected paid leave to provide certain types of care to a family member or to bond with a child.

For more information, review the full New York State Paid Family Leave Policy.