Articles for Paid Leave

Kentucky governor unveils paid leave plan for state workers with a new child or serious illness
1 week, 3 days ago

Kentucky governor unveils paid leave plan for state workers with a new child or serious illness

Associated Press  

FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky plans to provide state employees with paid time off so they can bond with a new child or deal with a serious medical situation, Gov. The added benefit will give state executive branch workers up to six weeks of paid leave, available in three intervals during an employee’s career, the governor said. Based on current employment …

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Maharashtra Elections 2024: From banks, NSE, BSE to liquor shops, hospitals – What’s open and closed today?
1 month ago

Maharashtra Elections 2024: From banks, NSE, BSE to liquor shops, hospitals – What’s open and closed today?

Live Mint  

Maharashtra Elections 2024: Maharashtra will head to the polls today, November 20, as voters cast their ballots for all 288 Assembly seats. November 20 has been declared a public holiday to facilitate voting, with certain services remaining open and others closed across the state. Banks: Closed for Business As per the Reserve Bank of India’s holiday list, all banks in …

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Maharashtra Elections: Mumbai employees to be granted paid leave on November 20
1 month, 2 weeks ago

Maharashtra Elections: Mumbai employees to be granted paid leave on November 20

Live Mint  

Maharashtra Elections: Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation has mandated that all employees working in businesses, establishments, and other workplaces within Mumbai will be granted a paid leave on November 20 to cast their vote. Maharashtra Elections: Paid Leave for All Employees Brihanmumbai Municipal Commissioner Bhushan Gagrani announced that all employees in the city will be entitled to a paid holiday on November …

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My 8-Year-Old Was Suffering From Cancer. To Keep Her Alive, I Made An Unthinkable Choice.
1 month, 4 weeks ago

My 8-Year-Old Was Suffering From Cancer. To Keep Her Alive, I Made An Unthinkable Choice.

Huff Post  

The author's daughter, Carolyn, during a hospital stay in Philadelphia in 2020. Courtesy of Elizabeth Austin While my 8-year-old daughter puked yellow goo into a hospital bedpan, I couldn’t be a doting mother bent over her shivering body, rubbing soothing circles over her back. As a single parent of two kids and our household’s sole income provider in a state …

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Not just mothers: Fathers also need paid leave — and presidential candidates must address that
2 months, 1 week ago

Not just mothers: Fathers also need paid leave — and presidential candidates must address that

Salon  

Like many fathers in the U.S., when Jon Morgan's first child was born, he didn’t get paid family leave. “I missed those first smiles, the bonding time, and even the sleepless nights that, in hindsight, I wish I could have shared more fully with my partner.” Parent-focused policies, like child tax credits, child care, and paid family leave, are receiving …

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Child care burst into the national spotlight at the Vance-Walz debate. Here’s why.
2 months, 2 weeks ago

Child care burst into the national spotlight at the Vance-Walz debate. Here’s why.

LA Times  

The vice presidential candidates appeared to find some agreement during their Tuesday night debate over child care and paid family leave, in the longest and most in-depth campaign exchange about these issues to date. “I think there is a bipartisan solution here because a lot of us care about this issue,” Vance said in response to a question from CBS …

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More dads taking paid leave to look after their children: UWV
3 months, 1 week ago

More dads taking paid leave to look after their children: UWV

Dutch News  

More new parents are taking advantage of one of the paid leave schemes to look after their babies, with the number of fathers increasing as well, figures from state benefits agency UWV have shown. The number of applications for paid parental leave, which was expanded two years ago, has shot up by 20%, from 140,000 in the first year to …

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More dads taking paid leave to look after their children: UWV
3 months, 1 week ago

More dads taking paid leave to look after their children: UWV

Dutch News  

More new parents are taking advantage of one of the paid leave schemes to look after their babies, with the number of fathers increasing as well, figures from state benefits agency UWV have shown. The number of applications for paid parental leave, which was expanded two years ago, has shot up by 20%, from 140,000 in the first year to …

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Paid Sick Leave Laws May Be Coming To More Red States
3 months, 1 week ago

Paid Sick Leave Laws May Be Coming To More Red States

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A growing number of liberal states have passed paid sick leave laws in recent years, assuring workers get paid time off to care for themselves or their loved ones when they’re ill. Now some conservative states might be getting in on the act, too. “What we’ve realized in talking to thousands of Nebraskans is that this is …

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Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Women's work: America's social safety net is built on sexist exploitation

Salon  

"Other countries have social safety nets. The child care crisis — the current lack of affordable child care for families — illustrates how we rely on mothers to fill in gaps in our economy and our social safety net. Your second chapter, “Leaving Women With No Choice,” starts by saying that once they’re caught in the motherhood trap “it doesn’t …

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As Melinda French Gates leaves the Gates Foundation, many hope she’ll double down on gender equity
7 months, 1 week ago

As Melinda French Gates leaves the Gates Foundation, many hope she’ll double down on gender equity

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — Melinda French Gates is already one of the biggest philanthropic supporters of gender equity in the United States and is now poised to put another $12.5 billion toward intractable problems like closing the gender pay gap and increasing women’s political participation, her grantees hope. Organizations like Paid Leave For All, founded in 2019 to coordinate advocacy around …

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More US parents than ever have paid leave this Mother’s Day - but most still don’t
7 months, 1 week ago

More US parents than ever have paid leave this Mother’s Day - but most still don’t

Associated Press  

NEW YORK — More working U.S. parents than ever are celebrating their first Mother’s Day with hard-fought access to paid time off to care for newborns. But the majority still must forego pay to care for new babies or other loved ones, even as efforts to expand paid parental and family leave gain traction. Pennsylvania’s House and Senate are considering …

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Queensland public servants to get paid leave for reproductive healthcare
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Queensland public servants to get paid leave for reproductive healthcare

ABC  

In short: Queensland public servants will receive 10 days paid leave for reproductive healthcare and superannuation for all parental leave. Queensland public servants will receive 10 days paid leave for reproductive healthcare and superannuation for all parental leave. Queensland public servants will soon receive 10 days of paid leave to access reproductive healthcare including IVF and fertility treatments, care for …

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Recognise ‘this leave’ as a woman’s right
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Recognise ‘this leave’ as a woman’s right

The Hindu  

Sometimes, elections throw up an acceptance of and solutions to deeply institutionalised gender biases and discrimination against women. In the run-up to the general election 2024, the election manifesto of the ruling political party in Tamil Nadu, the Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam, has made a promise that the “DMK will insist that the Union government enact a law providing menstrual leave …

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The Best Countries For Work-Life Balance
9 months, 1 week ago

The Best Countries For Work-Life Balance

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING In this post-pandemic era, many employees work remotely. Sherry Leiwant, a co-founder and co-president of A Better Balance, an organization that advocates for workers, described the situation to HuffPost: “At present, only 27% of private sector workers in the U.S. have access to paid family leave, which translates to almost 100 million U.S. workers without any access …

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I Fought For Paid Parental Leave In My Town. Then Came The Child Care Costs.
10 months ago

I Fought For Paid Parental Leave In My Town. Then Came The Child Care Costs.

Huff Post  

Ask any American with young children what their No. “When they showed me the policies, I said, ‘Well, I think that we can increase these standards.’ So the really big push that I made was to say that we would have six weeks of paid FMLA for all full-time employees of the town government.” “I had done a lot of …

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A demand that could hamper gender equality
10 months, 1 week ago

A demand that could hamper gender equality

The Hindu  

The Sabrimala temple issue was one that ruled our collective consciousness. Menstrual cycles can be challenging — almost debilitating for some — but to collectively label all those belonging to a gender without considering the potential adverse effects, is trivialising the women empowerment movement. If one adds mandatory paid leave for periods to this, it would end up further dissuading …

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Menstruation not handicap, no need for ‘paid leave’ policy: Minister Smriti Irani
1 year ago

Menstruation not handicap, no need for ‘paid leave’ policy: Minister Smriti Irani

Hindustan Times  

New Delhi: Union women and child development minister Smriti Irani on Wednesday said that menstruation is not a “handicap” and it shouldn’t warrant a specific policy for “paid leave”. Irani was speaking in Rajya Sabha in response to a question asked by Rashtriya Janata Dal member in the upper house Manoj Kumar Jha on the menstrual hygiene policy in the …

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Calls for additional paid parental leave to support multiple-birth families
1 year, 3 months ago

Calls for additional paid parental leave to support multiple-birth families

ABC  

Jasmine Bourchier is buying all her baby essentials in three's, and is quickly learning of the intense financial pressure that comes with having five-month-old triplets. Key points: In Australia, additional Paid Parental Leave is not provided to families of twins, triplets, or more The Australian Multiple Birth Association says having triplets is 13 times more expensive than having a singleton …

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I'm a new dad. Here's why I'm taking more parental leave than my wife.
1 year, 4 months ago

I'm a new dad. Here's why I'm taking more parental leave than my wife.

NPR  

I'm a new dad. And, thanks to a generous parental leave policy hammered out between my union and my employer back in 2021, I'm about to take six months of paid leave. But, driven by concerns about gender inequality as well as plummeting birth rates, countries in Europe and Asia have been increasingly expanding paid paternity leave and trying to …

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Kinship carers step up in times of crisis – it’s time we stood up for them
1 year, 5 months ago

Kinship carers step up in times of crisis – it’s time we stood up for them

The Independent  

When Natalie had the call asking her to take care of her 10-week-old nephew in August 2022, as his parents were no longer able to look after him, she had just been offered a two-year contract working at a school as a teaching assistant. But this comes at enormous cost – most kinship carers haven’t expected or budgeted to be …

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Without paid family leave, teachers stockpile sick days and aim for summer babies
1 year, 5 months ago

Without paid family leave, teachers stockpile sick days and aim for summer babies

NPR  

Without paid family leave, teachers stockpile sick days and aim for summer babies Karli Myers had her son, Luke, in November, while working as a high school English teacher outside Tulsa, Okla. According to a survey by the National Council on Teacher Quality, less than one fifth of the nation's largest school districts offer paid parental leave for teachers. For …

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Elon Musk slashes Twitter’s parental leaves from 20 weeks to 14 days
1 year, 7 months ago

Elon Musk slashes Twitter’s parental leaves from 20 weeks to 14 days

Live Mint  

The micro blogging site Twitter has gone through many changes since the time Elon Musk took over. In a new major change, Mush has now changed Twitter's parental leave policy from 20 weeks to just 2 weeks, a report by News by New York Times has stated. A report by New York Post states that US does not have a …

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Why was Don Lemon suddenly fired after 17 years with CNN?
1 year, 7 months ago

Why was Don Lemon suddenly fired after 17 years with CNN?

Daily Mail  

The statements shed little light on what actually led to Lemon's exit, while providing confirmation of the latest failed experiment under CEO Chris Licht Don Lemon said he was left 'stunned' by his sudden firing from CNN after more than 17 years - but why exactly was the morning newscaster axed? 'She says people, you know, politicians are suddenly not …

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