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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

Paid family leave still rumbling

12.02.2008 | The Olympian | Just a quick hit from a meeting of House budget writers specializing in human services. They were reminded that they had given $6.2 million to the Employment Security Department to build a computer to run a paid family leave program. | More

Labor Department finalzes new family leave rules

Labor Department finalizes new family leave rules: The Labor Department on Thursday announced final revisions in the Family and Medical Leave Act, including new rules defining how families of wounded service members will be able to take unpaid leave to care for them.