Section 702-1-III - [Effective 1/1/2025] Use and types of LeaveA. A covered individual may take the following types of leave: 3. Reduced Schedule leaveB. Use of Intermittent and Reduced Schedule leave. 1. Covered individuals may take up to 12 weeks of approved leave on either a continuous, intermittent or reduced schedule. Partial weeks or partial days of leave will be prorated against the employee's scheduled workweek.2. Intermittent and reduced schedule leave may be taken by the covered individual in increments of not less than a scheduled workday. If a covered individual and their employer agree in writing, the covered individual may take intermittent or reduced schedule leave in smaller increments, except that the minimum increment is one hour. An employer is not required to agree to allow the use of increments of less than a scheduled workday but cannot refuse to allow the covered individual to use a full scheduled workday if refusing the use of a partial day. A covered individual who is self-employed and has opted into the fund must take leave in increments of one scheduled workday.3. Payments will be prorated based on the number of hours of leave used by a covered individual and reported to the Administrator, divided by the number of hours the covered individual is scheduled to work in the week. If the covered individual's schedule is so variable that it is difficult to determine how many hours the covered individual would have worked in the week were it not for taking leave, the Administrator will determine the covered individual's scheduled workweek as the average number of hours worked by the covered individual in each of the previous 12 weeks. If the Administrator is not able to obtain information about the covered individual's previous 12 weeks of hours worked after reasonable attempts to obtain said information the Administrator will assume a schedule of Monday through Friday, 8 hours per day. For the purposes of this paragraph, "hours worked" means any hours the employee was or is scheduled to work, regardless of whether the employee actually worked those hours or used authorized leave to cover those hours.4. A covered individual approved for intermittent leave is not required to file a separate application for each occurrence of intermittent leave but must report any leave taken to the Administrator within 15 days after each occurrence for the purposes of providing benefits. A covered individual must still inform their employer of any intermittent leave use according to the employer's reporting policies.5. If an applicant applies to take intermittent or reduced schedule leave from two or more employers participating in the Fund, the applicant must provide, for each employer, a leave schedule agreed to by the applicant and the employer that provides information regarding the number of hours the applicant is scheduled or anticipated to work for a specific workweek and the number of hours the employee will use leave for on a reduced or intermittent basis for each workweek during leave for benefit proration. The Weekly Benefit Amount is prorated based on the number of hours of leave taken from any of the employers from whom the covered individual is on leave and the covered individual's scheduled hours for all of the employers from whom the covered individual is on leave. In the absence of such agreement, the Administrator will determine the applicant's scheduled hours.12-702 C.M.R. ch. 1, § III