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They ran concurrently for me.

FMLA is only a 12 week unpaid leave. The STD just made sure that I would get up to 6 weeks of paid leave**, after I used all of my accrued paid vacation and sick time. It doesn't extend the length of your leave.

Since I had DD in January, I didn't have any vacation accrued, but I had 4 weeks of sick time. After those 4 weeks, the STD kicked in and I received money.

**The "6 weeks paid leave" had a 2 week waiting period, so it was really only 4 weeks of pay.

I'm not sure how well I'm explaining this, but let me know if you have any more questions - it took me a while to wrap my head around it.

For me they run concurrently. I'll supposedly be able to use my sick and banked sick time in order to be paid 100% during my six weeks of STD, and then I'll use my vacation to cover the remaining six weeks of FMLA that is normally unpaid.

At my company, we have a Leave Manager who manages all FMLA, STD, etc. This is different than our HR department, though the HR department was able to give me the number to call. When I called and told them I was pregnant and looking for FMLA, they automatically added STD to my leave as well.

I'll have more information once I actually have the baby and find out how it all really works! Currently all my leaves (FMLA and STD) are "pending" and don't kick in until I actually give birth. I have no idea how it will actually work at that point... hope it's fairly straight-forward!

It will be a company policy so talk to your HR. We don't have STD but we are required to use our PTO during FMLA, can't separate them out.

Mine ran concurrently but every company is different! When I was looking into mine (and asking here) I found some people were able to stretch these out. Lucky dogs!!

It depends on the company--I take 1 week sick leave, then get 6 weeks STD/maternity leave, then 12 weeks FMLA. So, mine is separate.

concurrently as well, 12 weeks total 6 paid by std, 2 paid vaca rolled over from 2012, 4 unpaid

@Pumpkinspice: So you didn't have to take them concurrently? ie you could get 24 weeks if you wanted instead of 12 (ie FMLA and STD run at the same time)?

Mine will be concurrent.. 6 weeks of STD @ 60% pay and then another 6 weeks unpaid for a total of 12 for FMLA. I'll have maybe 2 weeks of vacation and sick time saved up by then so I'll probably have to use that up before STD kicks in.

@JoJoGirl: I think I was confused as to it worked. I can get up to 12 weeks of paid STD and then FMLA. I wonder if I take the 12 weeks STD if that then nulls any FMLA time.

No he said concurrent I just don't think it sunk in to what that meant. He said the most I can get through STD is 12 weeks so I'm guessing that would then null the FMLA.
I won't be taking more than 12 weeks total anyway so that's ok with me.

@LemonLong: This thread has helped me immensely. I was so confused lol

@Alivoo01: OMG Seriously lol !

I don't get STD as a teacher, but for FMLA, I can't use any sick leave. : (

I am not a lawyer. I did investigate all of this when I got pregnant. If you have a nice company they may let you do STD and then FMLA. But legally you only get 12 weeks and you can use STD for 6 of them. Also, you are allowed to elect to use your own leave during FMLA if you want to get paid. Your company is also allowed to require you to use all of your leave during FMLA. You should check out the information http://www.dol.gov/whd/fmla/

@2PeasinaPod: my understanding (from talking to HR) is that if you have vacation time, your STD time clock will still start running 1 week after birth, you just don't get paid for the STD. So if i have 3 weeks of sick time and 6 of STD, I'd get 1 week of paid sick, then 2 more weeks of paid sick while disability is 'running' but I'm not getting paid for, and THEN, 3 weeks of getting STD pay. I intend to call Aflac to verify this because it seems fishy to me too.