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Family leave expansion law mulled
01.22.2009 | The Olympian | The paid-family-leave program that the governor suspended to save money could reappear, only bigger. It would be paid for with a 2-cents-an-hour payroll tax on most employees. Any such tax would have to be approved by voters, but the chairwoman of the state Senate Health Care Committee is confident thatContinue reading “Family leave expansion law mulled”
Family leave, sick pay mandates on the Obama agenda
12.13.2008 | Press-Enterprise | In some ways, conditions couldn’t be better for those seeking to make family leave and paid sick days available to more American workers. In some ways, conditions could scarcely be worse. | More