https://reasonstobecheerful.world/more-paid-leave-americans/
"A third of American workers now have access to some form of government-issued
paid leave — the biggest share ever.
The United States is one of only a handful of countries that doesn’t have a
federal paid leave policy offering workers paid time off after the birth of a
child or to seek medical care, for example, and access to unpaid leave is only
about 30 years old. In that dearth of federal action, states have moved ahead
to pass 14 paid leave laws since 2002, which now cover a third of the
population. Ten of those were passed in the past decade, as support for paid
leave has risen; three go into effect this year.
Some states’ paid family and medical leave programs expand beyond time off to
care for a new baby or to get medical treatment. Last year, Colorado expanded
its paid leave program to include an additional 12 weeks for parents of babies
in the neonatal intensive care unit. In Oregon, survivors of domestic violence
also qualify for paid leave. Connecticut offers paid leave if you’re serving as
an organ or bone marrow donor.
According to research from the National Partnership for Women & Families, a
nonprofit advocacy group, the 14 laws now cover 32 percent of private-sector
workers, an estimated 46 million people. A third of the women in the
private-sector labor force are now eligible for state paid leave, as well as a
third of men and a third of parents. Asian American, Native Hawaiian and
Pacific Islanders have especially benefited — 55 percent have paid leave
through their state programs, as do 41 percent of Latinx workers due to a
concentration of these communities in states that have enacted programs.
Paid leave laws are in 13 blue states and the District of Columbia: California,
New Jersey, Rhode Island, New York, Washington, Massachusetts, Maine,
Connecticut, Oregon, Colorado, Maryland, Delaware and Minnesota."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
