Sentences with phrase «family leave bill»

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York state Assembly has again passed a paid family leave bill that would allow workers to take up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child or a sick loved one.

Soon after speaking with Gotham Gazette, Klein introduced a new version of his paid family leave bill to the state Senate.

«Flanagan is again selling out New York State businesses by negotiating on the minimum wage and the Family Leave Bill, which will horribly increase the burden carried by New York businesses struggling under the existing liberal burdens of taxes and regulation,» wrote Paladino, a Buffalo developer.

But now with major attention from media, elected officials, and advocates across the nation focused on whether New York will become the fourth state to pass a paid family leave bill, Cuomo is whipping up support for his plan.

Last year he moved a staggered minimum wage increase and a paid family leave bill through the legislature only a few months after he and his staff rebuked the idea of passing both as flights of fancy.

This week, the New York State Assembly passed a paid family leave bill.

The legislative session delivered a one - two punch for Cuomo's legacy the passage of what was billed as an increase of the minimum wage to $ 15 and what is still hailed as the strongest paid family leave bill in the nation.

In the twilight hours of Albany budget negotiations, legislators are hashing out the specifics of a paid family leave bill that would offer New Yorkers time off to care for new or ailing loved ones.

Complicating matters is that Cuomo is also seeking a paid family leave bill.

In the email, he also pointed to the paid family leave bill as another burden on businesses.

Not exact matches

Analysts estimate that the Senate bill would leave 13 million people uninsured, increase Obamacare premiums on unsubsidized families by $ 2,000, and force automatic cuts to Medicare.

«It's still sad because you're trying to market this bill as something that's going to help families, using the child tax credit as a fig leaf, and even within the fig leaf you're hurting children.»

If Hillary Clinton is elected President, her daughter Chelsea is planning on continuing to serve on the board of the Clinton Foundation — the controversial charitable organization the Clinton family founded and have run since Bill Clinton left the presidency.

A year later, they were starting their family so Bill quit his job to make sure there wasn't a loss in leadership during Sadie's maternity leave.

Bill O'Reilly left Fox News this week for a long - planned vacation to Italy and the Vatican, with his fate in the hands of a Murdoch family calculating the risks and rewards of keeping him on or forcing him out of the network.

Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act, while Barack Obama signed not only a nearly $ 800 billion stimulus package to combat a spiraling recession but also the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Act and a law expanding the Children's Health Insurance Program.

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Yvonne Staples was not as interested in singing as the rest of her family but she stepped in when her brother Pervis left for military service, said family friend Bill Carpenter, who is author of Uncloudy Day: The Gospel Music Encyclopedia.

The young families moved to the suburbs (where my church is), leaving the church with heavy debt and high utility bills, and soon it went bankrupt and dissolved.

«After Bill left, [Kraft] wanted to decentralize power and make it more of a family - type organization and structure,» says Sidwell.»

The recently announced work and families bill gives new fathers the option of taking three months» paternity leave supported by a weekly state allowance of # 106.

Rhode Island and New Jersey have also passed paid family leave laws, and other states have considered similar bills.

But let's not ignore the fact that if Hillary actually had left Bill she would have then been seen as the problem — yet another middle - aged woman breaking up her family for her own selfish needs and then living off her former husband's hard - earned pay.

Gidon Ariel left this comment on my post about the water tax: My bill is closer to 70 koob (cubic meters) for a family of seven for 2 months!

Well, the National Organization for Women lobbied for the Family and Medical Insurance Leave Act, a federal bill that would have provided paid leave to new moms and Leave Act, a federal bill that would have provided paid leave to new moms and leave to new moms and dads.

My family is now left with over $ 10,000 in medical bills for a completely * unnecessary * hospitalization.

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.

The budget bill also creates a 12 - week paid family leave program that begins in 2018, to be paid for with a 70 - cent deduction.

Clinton starts out by invoking the first bill he signed into law as president — the Family and Medical Leave Act — which Maloney not only voted for in 1993, but also has sought to expand by introducing a bill to have it cover LGBT employees and their partners.

Also at 11 a.m., Assemblywoman Monica Wallace and Mary Travers Murphy, executive director of the Family Justice Center, discuss bills passed by the state Assembly to empower domestic violence victims to leave their abuser, Family Justice Center, Main Court Building, 438 Main St., Suite 201, Buffalo.

Former President Bill Clinton praised Cuomo's push for the federal government to help Puerto Rico and the work the state has done there, upstate economic development, as well as the passage of paid - family leave and the legalization of same - sex marriage in 2011.

They also point to initiatives here in New York, like the successful passage of on - bill financing, a major goal of the left - leaning Working Families Party which was touted by former President Bill Clinton during a trip to Albany last mobill financing, a major goal of the left - leaning Working Families Party which was touted by former President Bill Clinton during a trip to Albany last moBill Clinton during a trip to Albany last month.

Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, one of the leading members of the Working Families Party, made a sharp and unexpected break yesterday with his left - leaning colleagues by vigorously opposing higher taxes on Wall Street.

The proposed bill, agreed to by the mayor and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Vivertio but not yet introduced or passed in the council, will expand the size of businesses required to provide paid sick leave from 15 or more employees to 5 or more employees, accelerate it's applicability so that all covered businesses must comply by April 1, 2014 (businesses with 15 - 20 employees have until April 1, 2015 under the existing law), remove exemptions for manufacturing businesses and remove economic measurements that could have caused a delayed implementation and expand the range of family members that employees can care for during such paid sick leave.

He is working to support a bill that would require employers to provide paid family and medical leave.

«We have a lot of work in front of us,» said Bill Lipton, state director for the New York Working Families Party, pictured at left.

Under New York's new paid family leave law, billed as the nation's most generous, she will be able to...

«By moving to a $ 15 statewide minimum wage and enacting the strongest paid family leave policy in the nation, New York is showing the way forward on economic justice,» said Cuomo when he signed the bill in April of 2016.

The State Assembly approved a one house bill to establish partial paid family leave in New York, as Governor Cuomo signaled he will amend his proposal to provide more money to those who take the leave.

«Democrats need to show there are some differences with the Republican Party,» said Bill Lipton of the independent Working Families Party, which tries to pull the Democrats to the political left.

His support and leadership on labor issues, including the worker safety bill to protect utility workers and his support of paid family leave made a difference in the lives of working people.

She supports paid sick days and paid family leave insurance, so that no parent has to choose between paying the bills and nursing a sick child.

Mayor Bill de Blasio was back to being just another comrade Friday night at an out - of - town reunion for a left - leaning social justice group that helps families sympathetic to the Sandinistas in Nicaragua.

The union is a key component of the labor alliance behind the left - leaning Working Families Party, which made a commitment to a Democrat - controlled State Senate an integral part of its endorsement of Gov. Andrew Cuomo — an endorsement 1199 helped secure, along with ally Mayor Bill de Blasio.

A yearslong investigation into the Working Families Party, the influential left - leaning group that helped fuel the rise of Mayor Bill de Blasio, has resulted in the indictments of two former aides to a Staten Island city councilwoman.

Deacon favors a bill in Congress that provides up to 12 weeks of paid leave, the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Leave Act, authored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D -leave, the Family and Medical Leave Insurance Leave Act, authored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D -Leave Insurance Leave Act, authored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D -Leave Act, authored by Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D - N.Y.

Cuomo credited the labor group with several of his recent legislative successes, such as a bill that increases the minimum wage to $ 15 in New York and a paid family leave program.

Similarly, whilst motoring organisations could again cheer another cancelled fuel tax rise (billed as a win for hard working families), airlines and travel firms have been left exasperated by another rise in air passenger duty (APD), which will hike up the costs of summer holidays for those self - same families.

When New York Times fashion photographer Bill Cunningham died on Saturday, he left behind an enormous portfolio of work and a mourning staff at Stage Star Deli who thought of him as family.

EU renewable energy directives could see electricity bills shoot up and leave pensioners and lower - income families shivering in their beds, according to new research.