The federal government doesn't provide a benefit many on Wall Street take for granted and that the European Union, Japan and Russia require. A bill introduced Feb. 10 to give federal employees four weeks paid time off to care for new children isn't likely to make it to a vote. The measure's probable fate underscores that the United States has "the most family-hostile public policy" in the developed world, said Joan Williams, director of the Center for WorkLife Law at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco.
... after marriage and after having children, increasing the number of dual-career households i...leaves (paid and unpaid family care leaves, maternity pha...
The West Virginia Kids Count Fund recognized 107 state businesses Tuesday for offering policies that are friendly to a parent's child- care needs. Kids Count recognized businesses that allow their employees to use sick leave to care for sick children, lets them bring their sick child to work and reimburses them for some portion of their child- care costs.
The U.S. Supreme Court took us a step forward in 2003's Nevada Department of Human Resources vs. Hibbs, by holding that states can be sued for violating their employees' federally guaranteed right to take time off for family emergencies. Private employers could be sued before 2003, but the case expanded that right to government employees. It also used language that put an arrow in the heart of gender roles. William Hibbs had been denied time off to care for his ailing wife, but the court distrusted the old model: "Parental leave for fathers is rare. Even where child care leave policies do exist, men, both in the public and private sectors, receive notoriously discriminatory treatment in their requests for such leave. Many states offered women extended 'maternity' leave that far exceeded...
Obama will work to reduce unintended pregnancy by guaranteeing equity in contraceptive coverage, providing sex education and offering rape victims accurate information about emergency contraception. Obama believes the government needs to take steps to better enforce the Equal Pay Act, fight job discrimination, and improve child care options and family medical leave to give women equal footing in the workplace. Crime and Justice Obama will ban racial profiling by federal law enforcement agencies and provide federal incentives to state and local police departments to prohibit the practice.
The Greater Rochester Association of Women Attorneys, with the support of the Monroe County Bar Association and The Daily Record, is surveying the entire legal community regarding maternity, child care and family leave policies. Like many professionals, members of the legal community are wrestling with the prevalence of work/ family/quality of life issues. This task is all the more difficult without a clear picture of today's circumstances and options; the last community survey on leave policies was completed 17 years ago. In light of the need for current information, the Family and Careers Committee of GRAWA has developed a survey to assess maternity/child care/family leave policies, which, for the first time, includes an assessment of alternative work arrangements available in the leg...
Another reason we haven't embraced the universal child care and paid family leave that young parents in every other industrialized nation take for granted is that upper-middle- and upperincome families don't have a childcare problem. If more effective political leadership made the cause more mainstream, Generation X would readily embrace a larger social outlay for child care as well as paid family leave that could reduce the conflict in their roles as workers and parents.
Calling fatherlessness a "social evil" and the "engine driving our worst social problems," they promote father presence as a panacea for poverty, failure in school, emotional and behavioral problems among boys, premarital sex and pregnancy among girls, suicide, child abuse, and even social inequality. On-site child care, paid family leave, paid sick time, affordable health insurance, flexible scheduling, and home-based work opportunities relieve work/family stress and increase employee job satisfaction.
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