Leave

In the past, maternal leave has had a troubled history in legislation. Women have had to fight multiple times in court to access time off for childcare. In the United States where the consensus is that working hard equates to your dreams coming true, significant time off work seems retrograde in obtaining one’s goals. Throughout history as more women entered the workforce, a divide formed between business and motherhood. In today’s society, maternal leave is a term left behind for a more…

maternity leave, and while women are granted up to twelve weeks of maternity leave, some women are denied access to it. The United States has the FMLA (Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993), which states that women are eligible for unpaid maternity leave for six to twelve weeks if employees work in a firm of 50 or more employees, work with the same business for 12 months and have worked for at least 1,250 hours over those 12 months. There is a huge debate about whether maternity leave should be…

Parental Leave Laws are an extremely important but overwhelmingly overlooked necessity in America. Other countries have proven for years that Paid and Protected Parental Leave strengthen the family unit, as well as the economic and corporate structures. The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not mandate paid leave for mothers of newborns. We must make Parental Leave Laws a priority for all parents if we wish to improve the standard quality of life in this country and…

Katie Landwehr Economics Essay Pro Paid Leave Almost 75% of American children live in households with working parents and no stay-at-home mom or dad. This means that the vast majority of parents would need to take time off work to take care of sick kids or care for a newborn, sadly that percentage doesn’t match up with the percentage of workers who actually have paid family leave. As of 2011, only 11% of the private sector and 17% of the public sector could take time off from…

agreed on: paid maternity leave. This election was the first time in history both parties pushed for paid maternity leave, but as always, they disagreed on the logistics. Donald Trump believes women deserve 6 weeks of paid maternity leave after childbirth, and plans to pay for it through unemployment insurance. In contrast, Hillary Clinton believes no matter how the child is received (i.e. childbirth, surrogate, or adoption), both men and women deserve paid maternity leave (Sholar). Even…

Paid Maternity Leave Madeleine M. Kunin once said, “Every time a woman leaves the workforce because she can't find or afford childcare, or she can't work out a flexible arrangement with her boss, or she has no paid maternity leave, her family's income falls down a notch. Simultaneously, national productivity numbers decline.” This quote displays the true effects of the neglect of paid leave in the United States. The United States is part of a small handful of countries that still do not mandate…

Paid Paternity Leave: Mandatory for Employers to Offer In the United States, currently paternity leave is an issue for both employers and employees, on average women and men go back to their job(s), two weeks or less after their child(ren) are born. The first few weeks after having a child or children are the hardest, however too many parents are going back too soon. Employers should mandatorily offer paid paternity leave for new parents who currently end up going back to work too soon due to…

Department of Labor’s website states in Wage and Hour Division (n.d.) that the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 entitles eligible employees of covered employers to take unpaid, job-protected leave for specified family and medical reasons with continuation of group health insurance coverage under the same terms and conditions as if the employee had not taken leave. This essentially means employees can take a leave of absence for medical related reasons, while still receiving their medical…

of paid maternity leave. The US provides zero,” the American politician, and Senator of Vermont, Bernie Sanders once stated. It is apparent that United States lacks the basic principal of paid maternity leave, and in fact it is the only developed country to not offer it. The United States has constantly debated whether or not paid maternity leave should be given, and even with many women entering the workforce, paid maternity is still not required by law. Paid maternity leave contributes to the…

In this day and age, working woman who are with child are granted to take maternity leave, to care, look after and attend to their new-born child. Maternity leave is typically granted to full-time working women, to bond and recover from child-birth. Apart from women getting maternity leave, paternity is also necessary for men and their families. Some individual’s may argue that men should take the important role in their families lives, because their wives need their support and attention after…