Sentences with phrase «generous paid family leave»

The first half was all Gov. Andrew Cuomo, with passage of the state budget on his terms including showboat items like a sort - of $ 15 - an - hour minimum wage and a generous paid family leave, both prominent national Democratic goals.

Since well before the State of the State address in January when Cuomo made the $ 15 minimum wage and an exceedingly generous paid family leave centerpieces of his forthcoming agenda, I've been getting calls and letters from small - business men and women across upstate anguishing over what this will mean for their thin - margin enterprises.

The provision will apply to union workers, with the only exceptions being any whose contract has a more generous paid family leave provision.

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Without significant increases in corporate taxes and taxes on the wealthy, it is now a virtual certainty that ordinary Canadian families will never enjoy the generous social programs enjoyed by most European families: enhanced maternity leave benefits, livable minimum wages, legislated paid vacation time of up to six weeks a year, genuine unemployment insurance, home care, pharmacare and more.

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

The details of the proposal are also being questioned by Democratic lawmakers in the Legislature, who have their own versions of paid family leave they say is more generous.

Scharff says her group is happy with a paid family leave program, which begins in two years and, once fully phased in would make New York's program the most generous in the nation.

Hutchins says the governor's proposal is more generous than the three states that already have paid family leave.

«I don't see how the conference is going to be justify a minimum wage that's the highest in the country and the most generous paid leave in the country when a large part of their base is small business owners and family farmers.

Virginia has no parental leave policies, but nearby District of Columbia introduced new legislation in 2015 to provide its residents with up to 16 weeks of paid family leave in a year, the most generous family leave policy in the nation.