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Expanding Family and Medical Leave to Small Firms

Jorgensen, Helene; Appelbaum, Eileen - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) gives eligible employees the right to take job-protected, unpaid leave … under the FMLA in 2012. However, more than two-in-five private sector employees do not have access to job-protected leave … because they are employed by small employers, which are exempt from the FMLA, and/or because they do not meet the tenure and …

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Documenting the Need for a National Paid Family and Medical Leave Program: Evidence from the 2012 FMLA Survey

Jorgensen, Helene; Appelbaum, Eileen - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

year. Our analysis of the Department of Labor’s 2012 Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) Survey found that 12.6 percent of …

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Business As Usual: New Jersey Employers’ Experiences with Family Leave Insurance

Lerner, Sharon; Appelbaum, Eileen - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

This study examines New Jersey employers’ experiences with employees who need time off to care for a seriously ill child or family member or to bond with a new baby since 2009, when the state began offering paid family leave through the statewide Family Leave Insurance (FLI) program. This...

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The Affordable Care Act: A Family-Friendly Policy

Baker, Dean; Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2014

Most of the discussion of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) has focused on the extent to which it has extended health insurance coverage to the formerly uninsured. This is certainly an important aspect of the law. However by allowing people to buy insurance through the exchanges and extending...

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Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries: Assessing Generosity and Gender Equality

Ray, Rebecca; Schmitt, John; Gornick, Janet C. - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2008

This report examines the parental leave policies in 21 high-income nations and identifies five "best practices" for parental leave policies. The study shows that the U.S. has the least generous leave policies of the 21 countries examined in the report. The states exhibiting the five best...

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Pay for Play? Tax Credits for Paid Time Off

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Economists are increasingly coming to the recognition that the current downturn is likely to be longer and more severe than they had expected at the time the last stimulus package was approved in February. As a result, there is likely to be interest in additional stimulus in order to boost the...

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Job Sharing: Tax Credits to Prevent Layoffs and Stimulate Employment

Baker, Dean - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

The unemployment rate is expected to average 10.2 percent for 2010, 9.1 percent for 2011, and 7.3 percent for 2012. With this in mind, this Issue Brief describes a job sharing tax credit, designed to provide a quick and substantial boost to the economy. It would use tax dollars to pay firms to...

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The Affordable Care Act: A Hidden Jobs Killer?

Baker, Dean; Jorgensen, Helene - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2013

Opponents of the ACA have labeled the health care bill a jobs killer. It seems implausible that the bill could be expected to have much impact on employment except among the relatively small number of firms that are near the 50-worker cutoff. However the bill does provide a clear incentive to...

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Inequality as Policy: The United States Since 1979

Schmitt, John - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009

Since the end of the 1970s, the United States has seen a dramatic increase in economic inequality. While the United States has long been among the most unequal of the world’s rich economies, the economic and social upheaval that began in the 1970s was a striking departure from the movement...

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Maternity leave

Regmi, Krishna; Wang, Le - 2022

Supporting working mothers to balance their work and childcare responsibilities is a central objective of maternal and parental leave policies. Nearly all countries offer some forms of maternity and family leave programs for childbearing on a national basis. This chapter reviews various types of...

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