Analysis: The Wisdom Of Paid Leave By Martha Burk

The website, whitehouse.gov it states that, “Only 39 percent report being able to take some type of paid family leave for the birth of a child.” Not all the workers were offered paid leave or any of the benefits it provides. Workers should be allowed to take time off to care for their child as they require extensive attention and care. The parents should be granted family rights along with individual rights.  The website also mentions how not only businesses but families will benefit as their economy overall would benefit since making full use of American talent requires policies that let workers better balance their family lives. Aside from work benefits parents will save money on baby essentials such as clothing, diapers, and formula as the expenses will be covered by their employer. Babies are healthier when their parents can afford them and cover all of their baby’s expenses. Along with raising a healthy child, maternal leave also impacts the mother’s health as they get to bond with their child without worrying about any job-related

After careful consideration, June monthly sit-downs will be scheduled sometime in early July. Rather than conduct the sit-downs before the start of my annual leave, I decided to solicit feedback from various sources regarding your performance, then apply it to your monthly rating. This, I find to be in the best interest of fairness; me, taking personal leave should not preclude you from earning the highest performance rating applicable.

Take a moment to think about this: you and your significant other just took the step to become parents. Though you are young, you both believed it was time and went ahead and brought a baby into your lives. Staring at your baby and your spouse with loving eyes, you do not think life can get any better. However blissful life may seem, things soon come crashing down. You and your significant other work average wage jobs and are having a hard-enough time supporting each other, and now the cost of diapers, clothes, furniture, formula and baby food are creeping in on you and sucking the life out of your bank account. You want to spend time with your new bundle of joy, but suddenly, your baby is being ripped out of your hands and being sent to an

In 2013, nearly three million Americans missed work due to illness. That costs the United States economy an estimated $84 billion each year. Even though paid sick days are an enticing benefit, there are many downfalls to this proposal. This one-size-fits-all government mandate does not work for every employee.

Some history on the case, Francis started working with Elsevier in 1991. The role of his employment was that of a production assistant. After a while, he was rehired after a company restructuring in which his new position was that of an associate database publishing editor. The main problem of the case concerns his wife's condition, amytrophic lateral sclerosis. Due to her condition he considered his potential rights under the Family Leave Act with a human resources representative from the company. A boss change led to him being interviewed with a new supervisor where he discussed his wife's condition. Shortly after he was dismissed. "Randall Francin had worked at Mosby, Inc., for twelve years before his wife was diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (LouGehrig's disease). "(Cross & Miller, 540) I believe if Francin's wife's condition was not discussed his performance would not have come into question. From the evidence presented especially after the appeal, I believe he was unlawfully terminated considering the close timing of his dismissal after it was known of his wife's condition.

Pregnancy and early child development is a fundamental aspect of human society, and is pertinent to the development of a successfully functioning community. The developmental and social progress of any civilization relies on children, as they will compose the future working population. Therefore, a mother or father’s involvement in the child’s development is of extreme importance, which is why family leave has been implemented all over the world. Family leave refers to the period of time granted to the employee to care for their newborn child. As communities evolve economically, financial stability is necessary, for what is perceived to be socially successful for a child’s development, which is why paid family leave is popular throughout the world’s nations. However, ABC News reports that “the U.S. is only one of three countries in the world that don't offer paid maternity leave” (Kim, 2015); the same is true for paternity leave. The United States government has an interesting track record dealing with family leave, but in order to analyze what the US government and advocacy groups have done to solve this issue, there first needs to be an understanding on why this issue is so difficult to resolve. The arguments that support and oppose paid family leave in the United States are equally valid, therefore causing a stalemate in the attempted policy making of legislative bodies.

everyone is treated as equals and how nobody is really above another, stands out to me. Also, how we talked about time off work also stood out to me. I really wish that America wasn’t all about work. I think that we should get more paid leave, especially for maternity leave. Work and money seems to be all that America is about anymore.

The lack of a paid parental leave law in the country does not necessarily mean that it is absent in the U.S. labor market. Some generous and more progressive companies do recognize the importance of the leave to employees and do offer it. According to the Employee Benefits Survey of 2015, 21% of employers nationally offer some paid maternity leave while 17% offer some paid paternity/adoption leave. However, about a fifth don’t have any kind of protected maternity, paternity, or adoptive leave. (Ray, 8; Time, n. pag.)

Paid parental leave should be equal and for both parents once a child is born

I have been given the responsibility to assist staff and students to anticipate and meet their needs, as well as lead the technician staff. Some of the tasks I do include: hiring and training staff, planning technology needs for conferences, purchasing equipment, and overall providing a service to Residence Life to help them further their mission. I have devoted a lot of time towards improving the services we provide, and because of that I have the honor to have some input with the centralization process. This transition however has not been easy. We had two full time staff members leading our department, and then due to the transition one of them moved to another office. This put some strain in the office environment, but there was a plan to have one of my co-workers be a leader and connection for our technical team. There was simply one problem, this individual did not like me as a co-leader. I came to find out that this individual was trying to find a way to get me fired. This was difficult for me to understand, but it has become clearer to me to the reasons why this had arisen. This individual and I had two very different approaches to leading and managing a team, and more often than not the technical staff did what I asked first. This made the individual upset and feel as if I was overpowering them or negating what they said. There was also an age difference with myself being

         The benefits that come with paid family leave are good, but what comes because of those benefits outweigh them. A lot of people have said that paid family leave in some way hurts a business but studies have shown that because of paid family leave, workers have been more productive and want to come back and work. Studies have shown that having some sort of program where you can have some sort of leave has increased business productivity and it has made the employees loyal to the company. It boosts the employee’s morale, making them want to work (Chen). If you think about it, it would make sense that people are wanting to go to work. If the company would allow this to happen, then they would not have to care about losing their job because of a sick family member and they could continue their work. If a family member

All Management, Administrative and Technical employees received an email asking for you to elect to opt-in to the PG&E’s new Voluntary Plan for improved Short-Term and Paid Family Leave benefits.

The United States is the only industrialized nation in the world that does not guaran¬tee workers access to paid time off from work in order to care for a new child or a seri¬ously ill family member. Since the turn of the century, three states - California, New Jer¬sey, and Rhode Island - have enacted paid family leave programs. In April 2016, New York also passed paid leave legislation which, although not scheduled to take effect until 2018, will constitute the country’s most comprehen¬sive and generous

Historically the role of the women was aligned with motherhood and supporting the household.Drastically changed in the 21st century, women are now the sole providers of their households all while holding top positions and providing support and love to the individuals in their lives’ . Welcoming the progressive era, a time of robust improvements for many areas in society, public health was one. With the increasing advancement of medical technologies many diseases that most thought to be incurable had treatments and things that could help an individual live a number of years more than if there was no treatment at all. This era also welcomed the Sheppard-Towner Maternity and Infancy Protection Act allowing for monetary funds to be issued that encouraged the health and education surrounding mothers and children. Not included act was maternity leave rights. Maternity leave did not make it into official documents until after the Civil Rights act, and the denial of its regulations within the house and senate. Boushey (2008) divided maternity leave into two categories. She stated,

Access to paid leave is often identified as an issue that primarily concerns working mothers, yet paid leave is also critically important for working fathers. In a society that continues to evolve, it is even more imperative to address this unequal access with an increasing number of fathers who are serving as stay at home parents (International Labor Organization, 2014). Legislation that supports fathers having the support they need to prioritize family responsibilities can significantly increase the personal and economic well-being of their growing families (United States Department of Labor, 2015). Despite these advantages, the growing importance of paternal involvement with their newborns is not always supported in today’s society. The economic and social barriers fathers face may hinder them from taking paternity leave altogether, such as inadequate access to paid leave and outdated cultural norms about male breadwinners. According to survey data, most fathers in the United States only take one day of leave time for every month the typical mother takes (Harrington et al., 2014). This means that even in the twenty-first century, it appears to be more widely accepted for mothers to take off time from work to care for their families than fathers. Fewer than half the countries in the world provide men with access to paid leave to care for a new child, while virtually all provide paid maternity leave (ILO, 2014). Paid paternity leave and laws related to promote