Leave for family reasons

Minnesota has a new state law taking effect on January 1 that gives some of what every state worker already had  to workers in many kinds of non-public employment throughout the entire state, emergency leave for serious or exceptional family reasons such as births, military duty or parental hospice care. 
AFSCME worker's statewide agreement for some time has prevented payroll interruption or job loss when an employee has an illness, bereavement, military duty, birth or other family-related situation. In Minnesota's private sector past, in some major industries, all it took to lose a job permanently was requesting one time leave to attend a sick child, spouse or relative. 
The new law says, in the case of state workers, medical or family leave that lasts at least 7 days may be funded by state matched payroll deductions of less than 1 percent. 
Please note the deduction on state workers uses typical AFSCME contract legal terminology: not "SHALL", not "WILL", not "MUST" but "MAY".