Expand and Defend Family Medical Leave
by NeciVelez, Tue Jul 08, 2008 at 04:26:51 AM EDT
In a recent article in Mother Jones, entitled What Family Leave? by Stephanie Mencimer, she discusses both the Bush plan to undercut existing legislation, and the need for the expansion of FMLA coverage.
The US is the only industrialized country in the world that doesn't provide paid maternity leave, putting it on par with such nations as Liberia and Swaziland, according to one study. But for 15 years the FMLA has been the beginning and the end of federal work/family policymaking.
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