Thanks in part to thousands of emails from Coalition member organizations, today family and medical leave insurance (HB 1609) has many more friends in the Washington House of Representatives than it did last Friday. When first submitted, the bill had 6 sponsors – not a bad start. And by the end of Monday, nine moreContinue reading “Washington Family and Medical Leave Insurance bill has new friends”
Category Archives: Family Leave Insurance
Family leave is back
Family Leave bill is back; Funded by 2-cent-an-hour employee tax: In 2007, Washington adopted FLI with benefits to new parents scheduled to begin October 1, 2009. As originally passed, the program had no dedicated funding source. Governor Gregoire put preparations for the new program on hold in the fall of 2008 as part of herContinue reading “Family leave is back”
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”
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