http://www.wired.com/2016/02/this-year- … tal-leave/TWENTY-THREE YEARS AGO today, newly elected President Bill Clinton signed the Family Medical Leave Act into law. Since 1993, the law has provided full-time American workers with 12 weeks of unpaid leave to care for family members or an unborn child. That’s a powerful thing. But now, there seems to be growing support for more substantial paid family leave.
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But according to the Department of Labor, only 12 percent of US private companies offer workers some kind of paid leave. That’s a significant problem for the many who can’t afford to take unpaid time off or may feel pressure not to do so. In fact, the United States lags behind much of the rest of the world when it comes to these kind of paid family benefits.
It is really a shame that the U.S. is one of only a handful of countries that does not provide paid maternity leave. You would think that paid family leave would be a popular issue among pro-life, pro-family, Christian conservative families. But unfortunately it isn't. This will hopefully be one of Clinton's first achievements.
