It expands family leave rights for the family members of our troops and veterans.
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America is the only first-world country that doesn't have a mandatory paid family leave policy.
Only about 12% of the work force has access to paid family leave through employers.
We should extend family leave to 10 million more Americans working in smaller companies.
The same rule applies to a family leave or a distant vacation: Communicate your unavailability before the fact.
Things like paid family leave and sick days and affordable childcare should be the norm, not the exception.
They face a pay gap at work, or higher premiums for health insurance, or inadequate options for family leave.
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His budget includes money to incent state governments to offer paid family leave.
It may be a combination of ineffective government family leave and child-care policies, less willingness to individually assert themselves, and employer discrimination.
The program is designed to help customers maintain their finances during difficult life events (job loss, unpaid family leave or medical emergencies).
It helped lay the cornerstones of middle class security, from the 40-hour work week and the minimum wage to family leave and pensions.
And many don't have access, as a result, to good family leave policies or any kind of flexibility in the workplace at all.
When a job doesn't offer family leave, that also hurts men who want to help care for a new baby or an ailing parent.
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It calls for training and counseling for families of service members who require long-term care and improved family leave and insurance benefits for family members.
In addition, he will focus attention on expanding family leave programs.
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Most companies persist in complying only with minimum legal requirements for either parent: 12 weeks of unpaid family leave at companies with 50 or more employees.
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Although some individual companies offer a paid maternity leave benefit, many parents end up using a combination of short-term disability, sick leave, vacation, personal days and unpaid family leave.
The national law that supposedly ensures family leave in our country is the Family and Medical Leave Act (or FMLA), which provides both fathers and mothers with job-protected leave for 12 weeks.
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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. (Applause.) The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans.
Why would anyone with a mortgage and family leave a stable job at a big company to go work for a start-up that has a less than 1% chance of surviving for more than a few years?
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Eleven years later, the Hua family leave their French Concession town house almost every Saturday to head to their weekend home in Zhaoxiang, a rural suburban township 22 miles west of Shanghai's city center, in the district of Qingpu.
If we act in these areas -- minimum wage, family leave, child care, health care and the safety of our children -- we will begin to meet our generation's historic responsibility to strengthen our families for the 21st century.
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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In 2002, California became the first state to enact a paid family leave act, allowing employees to take six weeks' leave and up to 55% of their weekly wages, with a benefit cap, to care for a newborn or newly adopted child.
Which brings us to the second proposed solution for the hours gap: generous family-leave and child-care policies.
The Family Medical Leave Act, for instance, provides no benefits to individuals who may wish to care for a grievously ill friend.
It was too late for Rudy's whole family to leave Germany, so they had him smuggled into a refugee center in Belgium.
That means federal tax, Social Security, pension, and bankruptcy benefits, and family medical leave protections do not apply to gay and lesbian couples.
That means federal tax, Social Security, pension, and bankruptcy benefits, and family medical leave protections-- do not apply to gay and lesbian couples.
My family would leave but I was in (unintelligible) on the hospitality industry in New Orleans which is why I was in the city during Katrina.
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