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Career and Kids

June 19th, 2008

New Jersey enacts Paid Family Leave bill

On the heels of our discussion about paid family leave, I read that New Jersey recently became the third state in the United States to enact a paid family leave for workers to take up to six weeks off to care for newborn or newly adopted children as well as seriously ill family members.
While the […]

By elizabeth -- 2 comments

June 3rd, 2008

Paid family leave in the United States

MSNBC looks at paid family leave in the United States.
Until I read that, I didn’t know that a couple of states (California and Washington) have paid family leave.
Sure, we’ve had The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in the United States since 1993, but it generously allows you to take time off using any […]

By elizabeth -- 4 comments