The struggle to find balance is often more challenging for low-income parents, who are more likely to have jobs with little flexibility, face mandatory overtime and unpredictable work hours and lack critical benefits like paid sick and vacation leave.
Paternity leave is almost sashimi-rare on Capitol Hill, with many new fathers substituting sick leave or vacation time for leave.
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.
And taking two consecutive weeks of vacation might just leave you too far behind and therefore might not be worth it.
But most workers in each city choose to leave vacation days unused especially in San Francisco, where 69% of workers have unused vacation time.
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Lower earnings, lack of benefits, limited vacation or sick leave and the high costs of part-time childcare came together to create devastating effects for millions of families.
And so, as Secretary LaHood made clear, it is wholly inappropriate for members of Congress to go on recess, go on vacation, and leave this issue hanging, and take away from these hardworking Americans their paychecks for at least another four, five, six weeks, when they could resolve this issue right away.
In Boston, by contrast, only 37% of workers leave unused vacation time on the table.
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Friday is Ricardo Portillo's youngest daughter's 16th birthday, and the family was planning to leave on vacation Thursday, Johana Portillo said.
Absolutely a fact -- A. B, it is absolutely a fact that this President does not believe Congress should leave on vacation until it has extended the tax cut to working and middle-class Americans that they received this year.
Attorney Guy Neal, who represents creditors, spent a good deal of his trial time showing that for years Stockton had granted bloated labor contracts and benefits, and then allowed employees to boost their retirement benefits further by cashing out vacation time and sick leave in their last year of employment, thus raising their benchmark annual salary for retirement benefit purposes.
So parents who are lucky enough to have sick leave and paid vacation, like me, wind up using it all up.
So why is it that 48% of Americans leave half their vacation days unused, and a third of workers eat lunch at their desks?
What this means is that, as part of this relief, employees may donate their vacation, sick or personal leave in exchange for employer cash payments made to qualified tax-exempt organizations providing relief for the victims of Hurricane Sandy .
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For Obama, I think really has a kind of open field between now and the week before his convention in Denver, although if he wants to go on a vacation with his family and leave his vice president to do the campaigning, maybe he wants a good week with him, whoever it may be, on the trail before he does that.
The same rule applies to a family leave or a distant vacation: Communicate your unavailability before the fact.
In December, 2005, after twelve exhausting months in Iraq, during which he lost forty pounds, Johnson went on leave and met his parents for a Christmas vacation in the Dominican Republic.
That makes the U.S. the only advanced nation in the world that doesn't guarantee its workers annual leave, according to a report titled " No-Vacation Nation" by the Center for Economic and Policy Research, a liberal policy group.
And they could do it all -- heck, they could leave a day early, have a month and a day vacation.
Mathai testified earlier that she slept in a closet, worked long days without vacation, days off or sick time and wasn't allowed to leave the property, a palatial stone mansion on a cliff overlooking the Mohawk River.
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