Washington passes paid family leave.Family leave laws have been a blessing for families welcoming a new child or dealing with an illness. The downside Downside The dollar amount by which the market or a stock has the potential to fall. Notes: You might hear someone say that the downside on stock XYZ is $10. What that means is that the stock could fall by this amount if things got bad. is that many families aren't aren't Contraction of are not. See Usage Note at ain't. aren't are not aren't be in a financial position to allow them to take time off without pay. With the enactment of Senate Bill 5659 in April, Washington Washington, town, England Washington, town (1991 pop. 48,856), Sunderland metropolitan district, NE England. Washington was designated one of the new towns in 1964 to alleviate overpopulation in the Tyneside-Wearside area. became the second state to establish a paid family leave program, joining California California (kăl'ĭfôr`nyə), most populous state in the United States, located in the Far West; bordered by Oregon (N), Nevada and, across the Colorado River, Arizona (E), Mexico (S), and the Pacific Ocean (W). , which passed a paid leave law in 2002. Washington's new law is a partial-wage replacement insurance program. The law provides for up to five weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child. The maximum weekly benefit is $250 a week, with pro-rated benefits available for part-time part-time adj. For or during less than the customary or standard time: a part-time job. part employees. The law establishes a 13-member legislative task force to determine the funding mechanism for the insurance program. Benefits under the law become available effective Oct. 1, 2009. California's paid family leave insurance program allows workers to deduct de·duct v. de·duct·ed, de·duct·ing, de·ducts v.tr. 1. To take away (a quantity) from another; subtract. 2. To derive by deduction; deduce. v.intr. a small premium from their paychecks to participate in the State Disability Insurance Program. Employees taking leave qualify for 55 percent of their pay, to a maximum of $882 per week, for up to six weeks. The Federal Family and Medical Leave Act, passed in 1993, provides for up to 12 weeks annually of leave without pay for the birth or adoption of a child, caring for a sick member of one's immediate family or for an extended illness of the worker. Eleven states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). have enacted state versions of family leave laws, often expanding coverage to include extended family members, such as parents or in-laws, or for non-family members of the household. With the exception of California and Washington, all of the states with their own family leave laws provide for unpaid leave. In both California and Washington, the paid leave programs run concurrently with the federal law, so employees can still take a maximum of 12 weeks annually under the federal law, but some of those weeks are paid time off under their respective state laws. While family leave laws help families, they have an impact on employers, too. Laws that make family leave work for both employees and employers are more likely to be supported by businesses. Both the California and Washington laws were structured as insurance programs so that workers pay for the costs, lessening the impact on employers. |
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