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How Does FMLA Work and What Should I Know About Hiring Minors for Seasonal Work?

Leave a Comment / Family and Medical Leave Act / By max cyril

The Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) gives eligible employees up to 12 workweeks of unpaid leave each year. In addition, employers must maintain employees’ group health benefits during the leave as if employees continued to work instead of taking leave. Also, employees are also entitled to return to their same or an equivalent job …

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The Narrow, Ineffective and Wholly Inadequate U.S. Debate about Paid Sick Leave

Leave a Comment / paid leave / By max cyril

In the rush — or at least the pretense of rush — to bring immediate economic relief to the millions of average workers gutted by the tanking global economy brought on by the coronavirus, Democratic Party elites and centrist papers of record Washington Post and New York Times are cementing the terms of the debate to a narrow, ineffective, and …

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The Culinary Union Faces Its Biggest Test as Coronavirus Shuts Down Vegas

1 Comment / unions / By max cyril

There may be no more vivid illustration of the economic havoc being wreaked by the coronavirus than the rapid shutdown of the Las Vegas strip. What was a booming tourist destination a week ago is now in the process of becoming a locked down row of empty buildings. For the Culinary Union, whose 60,000 members …

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Coronavirus Shows Capitalism Is a Razor’s Edge

2 Comments / health care, health insurance, healthcare / By max cyril

My best friend works as a standardized patient, which means she is a practice patient for medical schools to train and test students. One day she’ll play an older woman with a pulmonary embolism, her face stricken with worry, the next someone with depression, limp and listless. Each workday medical students fumble at her bedside, …

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Why Workers Like Victoria Need The PRO Act Now

Leave a Comment / paid family leave, Paid maternity leave, pregnancy discrimination / By max cyril

Those bundles of joy cost bundles of money, so Victoria Whipple, a quality control worker at Kumho Tire in Macon, Ga., had been working overtime to get ready for her new arrival. She also got involved in union organizing at the plant, and management decided to teach her a lesson. It didn’t matter that Victoria …

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Far-right effort to smear Elizabeth Warren flops. Turns out pregnancy discrimination is a thing

Leave a Comment / paid family leave, Paid maternity leave, pregnancy discrimination / By max cyril

Elizabeth Warren and the entire history of women’s employment in the 1970s are swatting away a claim by a far-right website disputing Warren’s story of losing her first teaching job because she was visibly pregnant at the end of her first year. The Free Beacon found documents claiming that Warren was offered a second-year teaching contract but …

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Kamala Harris goes big and bold with proposal for six months of paid family leave

Leave a Comment / Family and Medical Leave Act, paid family leave / By max cyril

Sen. Kamala Harris is offering up an expansive new paid family leave proposal. Harris had previously co-sponsored the FAMILY Act, which would provide three months of paid family leave—but now she’s calling for six months. Harris’ plan also calls for families with incomes under $75,000 to get full income replacement, with higher earners getting a …

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Oregon passes nation’s strongest paid family leave law

Leave a Comment / Family and Medical Leave Act / By max cyril

Oregon just became the eighth state to pass a paid family leave law—and it did so with the best such law in the country, a month after Connecticut passed what was then considered the best family leave law. After the bill passed the state Senate in a bipartisan 21 to six vote, Gov. Kate Brown signed it …

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2018 elections give paid sick leave and family leave new momentum in the states

Leave a Comment / paid sick leave / By max cyril

Nevada recently became the latest state to pass a paid sick leave law after 2018 put Democrats in control of the state. But Nevada isn’t the only state where paid leave has advanced in 2019, and the Democratic Governors Association is highlighting that momentum. In addition to Nevada’s paid sick leave law, which will require businesses with …

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Ivanka Trump promised her dad would deliver a great family leave plan. Here’s what we got.