Statutes such as the ADA and the FMLA have created new rights for employees.
In other words, close to half of the American workforce has no FMLA protection.
According to the report, 14 states and DC expand on the FMLA to give new fathers help.
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As the FMLA turns 20, it is time to bring it up to date for today's work force.
Supporters of the FMLA are constantly seeking ways to expand the law to ensure that all workers are covered.
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The FMLA, which grants job protection for up to three months of leave, applies only to enterprises with 50 or more employees.
While large businesses are certainly more likely to be able to absorb these costs, the conversation surrounding the FMLA is never just about the status quo.
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And thanks to the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) -- enacted 20 years ago this week -- I had a legal right to job-protected 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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Employees can sometimes file claims under the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), the Rehabilitation Act, and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA).
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The FMLA has been used more than 100 million times by women and men to care for parents, children and spouses with serious illnesses, to bond with new children and to manage their own serious health conditions.
The financial strain of unpaid leave is stark: the most recent comprehensive study of those who used FMLA leave found that over half who took leave with less than full pay reported having trouble making ends meet and almost 40 percent put off paying bills.
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The advocates are pressing on, with policy proposals including expanding the FMLA to cover workers in small businesses, providing paid leave for working caregivers to care for an ill child, spouse, or parent or to take family members to routine medical appointments, and requiring employers to provide employees with a reasonable number of paid sick days to care for themselves or a family member.
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