Sentences with phrase «around paid family leave»

We championed paid family leave, and there's a real discussion around paid family leave.

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Paid family leave is another critical policy needed for women and families around the world.

But a program about my area this week on BBC Wales showed the utter devastation in my area of families living on what is now well below poverty levels, one chap said after he pays his bills electric gas water he is left with ten pound a week to buy food, and thats not unusual around me.

I think a lot of discussion is going around how much time you have to be employed to be eligible for paid family leave.

There are also questions around whether Cuomo will include a proposal and dedicated funding for paid family leave, something that de Blasio recently moved on for some city employees and called on the state to pass for all workers.

The union, which was instrumental in leading the push for measures such as a minimum wage increase to $ 15 in the downstate region and $ 12.50 upstate as well as a paid family leave program, has spread its endorsements around to members of both parties as control of the state Senate remains up for grabs a week before Election Day.

ALBANY — Albany currently lacks «the appetite» to consider paid family leave and paid sick days, Governor Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday at a cabinet meeting framed in part around what he described as a «pervasive» culture of women's inequality in our society.

«The first possible woman mayor has just turned her back on a critical but modest lifeline that families around the city need — a stunning abandonment of working mothers and parents and the progressive women who have supported her from day one,» the NYS Paid Leave Coalition said in a statement.

He did tell the transit workers from all around the country about his record on progressive issues in New York, like raising the minimum wage and enacting paid family leave.

Jarrett said the White House is interested in the various paid family leave campaigns around the country and discussed with those attending Thursday's meeting possible paths to enacting legislation, Dolan said.