In October 2015, the law would expand to require five days paid leave at businesses with at least 15 workers.
One way that The Advisory Board Company optimizes employee engagement is by providing benefits like up to 10 days of paid leave for community service.
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Each new public employee can count on 21 days of paid holiday, 14 public holidays on which he gets paid, and 21 days of paid sick leave.
She already gives her two full-time employees up to three days of paid sick leave, she says.
Beginning Oct. 1, 2015, the law would expand to require five days of paid sick leave at businesses with 15 or more employees.
The federal Healthy Families Act, expected to be re-introduced this year, would require all businesses with 15 or more employees to provide up to seven days of paid sick leave each year.
Business owners are also wary of the possibility of a lapse in their operations if paid sick leave days are abused.
Earlier versions of the bill required businesses with 20 or more workers to provide employees with as many as nine days each year of paid sick leave.
At a hearing in May 2010, the version of the bill under consideration at that time would have required businesses to provide employees with nine days each year of paid sick leave.
Things like paid family leave and sick days and affordable childcare should be the norm, not the exception.
I, for one, would be curious to hear what Ann Romney might have to say about work-family issues like paid family leave or sick days, or what Michelle Obama thinks of the role of government in providing a social safety net.
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According to the website for MomsRising, a group that pushes for reform on issues like maternity leave, fair wages and paid family illness days, 55 percent of workers in the retail industry and 48 percent of workers employed in the general private sector don't receive paid sick days.
Back in China, many internet users complain of enjoying no paid leave despite Xinhua's reminder that the public are entitled to 115 days off a year from weekends and statutory holidays, roughly one-third of a year.
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