Sentences with phrase «including for paid family leave»

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Small businesses were in the spotlight, too, and were mentioned directly several times, including in a question by co-moderator Dana Bash about how entrepreneurs should be expected to pay for potential new regulations, such as paid time off for family medical leave.

This isn't to say I'd be thrilled to join other pumping moms in a communal Mothers» Room, but if work culture continues to skimp on providing supportive environments for raising a healthy family, including flex time, paid leave, subsidized quality care and just the basic humanity that allows us to see each other as more than just workers boosting a bottom line, I'd take the company of other moms like me so I wouldn't feel so alone as a working parent.

These investments to expand and strengthen child care and early education programs complement the Administration's other efforts to help working families, including offering workers the opportunity to earn paid sick and family leave, a higher minimum wage, and equal pay for women.

Provide eligible employees with up to 12 weeks of paid leave for their own serious illness; the serious illness of a child, parent, or spouse (including a domestic partner); the birth or adoption of a child; the injury of a family member who is in the military; or exigencies arising from a service member's deployment.

Enact paid family leave and workplace breastfeeding policies, building on the International Labour Organization's maternity protection guidelines as a minimum requirement, including provisions for the informal sector.

In the call, Obama cites the recent budget agreement in Albany that Kaminsky voted for as a sitting member of the Assembly, which included a 12 - week paid family leave program and an increase in the minimum wage targeted for $ 15 in downstate counties.

They were passing the budget that Leader John Flanagan had negotiated for them which included a robust paid family leave program and a path to a $ 15 minimum wage.

Klein has pointed to IDC successes in the Senate, including minimum wage increases and a successful push for the creation of paid family leave.

The agreement for workers» compensation in the budget was key for business organizations that had reeled over last year's spending plan that included a minimum wage agreement setting the floor at $ 15 over the next several years and a paid family leave program.

Lawmakers spent a lot of time talking about meaty issues, including establishing a system of paid family and medical leave, reinstituting tolls on state highways and setting up new measures to address police accountability, but in the end, a lack of consensus scuttled chances for a vote.

Pols including U.S. Rep. Nydia Velázquez, state Sen. Daniel Squadron, City Comptroller Scott Stringer, Councilmembers Brad Lander and Stephen Levin, Assemblymember Walter Mosley and former Assemblymember Joan Millman praised Simon for tackling tough issues like gun control, public education, civil and disability rights, ethics in government, minimum wage, and paid family leave.

There's no agreement yet on whether the state budget will include Cuomo's proposed employee - funded paid family leave program, which would let workers receive a percentage of their salaries while taking off up to 12 weeks to care for a newborn baby or sick relative.

UAW Local 259 President Brian Scheck touted the governor's record of progressive accomplishments, including the free tuition program for state colleges and paid family leave.

The strike's demands include a national healthcare system, a $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave for at least six months, free childcare and full - access, coercion - free reproductive freedom.

Advocates are also hopeful that the governor includes a significant paid family leave proposal on Wednesday, and many are watching to see if he unveils a plan for a statewide policy on car - hailing apps, like Uber.

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.

Enacted and modified to authorize the transfer from or use by the WCB in the amounts of $ 60 million for Board infrastructure, $ 50 million on other programs, including a transfer of $ 10 million for the creation of the Paid Family Leave Program, $ 140 million to SIF to cover general fund obligations of comp premiums for state employees.

Such initiatives have also been interspersed with attention to moderate social reforms, including gun control and paid family leave, dappled with more progressive policies like protections for transgender residents and a rejection of fracking.

Duffy and his colleagues talk about their legislative preferences for the New York State legislature and current topics of interest, including paid family leave and raising the minimum wage.

De Blasio's trip comes after he traveled to Washington last spring to launch a national campaign called the Progressive Agenda to push for changes in national economic policy, including a $ 15 minimum wage, closing the carried - interest tax loophole and national paid sick leave and paid family leave.

He also unveiled a litany of spending initiatives and policy goals that included raising the state's minimum wage to $ 15 and creating a program of paid family leave for New York workers.

The day Nixon actually announced her candidacy, he released a statement that put front and center his liberal accomplishments, which read like a progressive wish list: «Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking.»

That vision includes a number of bread - and - butter planks for the state Democratic Party: Paid family leave, increasing the state's minimum wage and reforming campaign finance laws.

Also at noon, low - wage workers, faith leaders and upstate community members launch a 24 - hour vigil at the Capitol to call on the Legislature to include a $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and $ 51 million for the Hunger Prevention and Nutrition Assistance Program in the state budget, War Room, state Capitol, Albany.

«Governor Cuomo has stood shoulder to shoulder with the working families of this state — including delivering a $ 15 minimum wage, 12 weeks paid leave and today a $ 19 wage for airport workers.

«Governor Cuomo has delivered more real progressive wins than any other Democrat in the country, including passing marriage equality, the strongest gun safety law in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, free college tuition, paid family leave, record setting funding for public education, expanding and protecting healthcare for our most vulnerable, and banning fracking,» the spokesman said.

The report proposes a series of policy recommendations to close the wage gap, including launching statewide public education campaigns on the breadth of career opportunities, salary negotiation and financial literacy, expanding access to child care and family leave, increasing career mentoring for young women and improving data and transparency on job titles, pay and benefits.

DeFrancisco stressed unity repeatedly in his remarks while also defending to an at - times skeptical audience why he voted for a budget last year that included a $ 15 minimum wage and a paid family leave program he had been on the record opposing.

Klein's turncoat coterie has insisted that their relationship with Republicans has enabled the passage of liberal measures — including paid family leave, a minimum wage hike, laws barring the prosecution of minors as adults for certain nonviolent offenses and the creation fund for the legal defense of undocumented immigrants.

Klein says the IDC will also continue to push for its own agenda, which includes paid family leave and better child care subsidies.

Gipson, though, said Cuomo probably won't be able to count on Saland's support on other key issues, including equal pay for women, raising the minimum wage, ensuring paid family leave and ending discrimination in the workplace.

The effort includes nurses, advocates for the mentally ill, the League of Women Voters and the New York Civil Liberties Union, who say everyone has an interest in seeing paid family leave become law.

But those close to him have previously said they don't fear a primary given what they consider the governor's strong progressive record, including successfully pushing for the legalization of same sex marriage, passage of the SAFE Act gun control law, enactment of a $ 15 hourly minimum wage and a statewide paid family leave program, and a free tuition program for some public college students.

Increasing the TDI is an extremely sensitive issue for businesses and many legislators believe that including it with paid family leave will continue to be a poison pill.

All three Democratic candidates support expanding laws that provide for paid family leave, including Gillibrand's FAMILfamily leave, including Gillibrand's FAMILYFAMILY Act.

The budget also included a requirement that employers offer paid family leave and lowered tax rates for New Yorkers making less than $ 300,000.

A spokesman for Governor Cuomo, Rich Azzopardi, says even with the state's present political divisions, New York still has some policies that are more progressive than California's, including paid family leave.

Hawkins said his 5 % of the vote in 2014 has forced Cuomo to compete for progressive voters by adopting a number of Green demands, including the ban of fracking, the $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and tuition - free public college.

Interestingly, each house has included semblance of paid family leave, which Cuomo recently said the Legislature had «no appetite» for, but the plans are drastically different and could lead nowhere.

The IDC, led by Bronx State Senator Jeffrey Klein, have asserted that the arrangement with the GOP has permitted the passage of numerous liberal measures — including gun control, paid family leave, a minimum wage hike and the creation of a legal services fund for undocumented immigrants.

«These reforms would include expanding rights to paid family and medical leave, extending workers» options for flexible working time, and increasing investments in high - quality nonfamily care,» Gornick wrote.

Medical Leaves with or without pay, include Pregnancy Disability Leave, Family and Medical Leave taken for the Postdoctoral Scholar's own serious health condition and Disability Leave.

• Benefits — Employee benefits typically include paid vacations, health benefits, sick pay and unpaid leave for extended illness, pregnancy or family matters.

Some choose to buy life insurance to provide their family with enough money to continue their same lifestyle, others leave money specifically for funeral expenses and / or to pay off remaining debt, while others choose to include money for their children's college education.

With travel insurance that includes trip interruption coverage, Jack's family won't have to pay a higher occupancy rate because he had to leave, and Jack will get reimbursed for the cost of scheduling an earlier flight home.

It's expanding paid paternity and adoption leave, offering «up to four weeks of paid leave for employees caring for others including to support child bonding and ill family members.»

The approach that is used by Fidelity in fulfilling its customers» basic needs includes offering assistance with maintaining a family's standard of living, helping a family to pay ongoing family debts, funding the future education of children and / or grandchildren, paying for final expenses, and leaving the family a financial legacy.

Under the new tax law (valid from 2018 to 2025), an individual can leave up to $ 11.2 million to their family without having to pay a federal estate or gift tax; a married couple may leave $ 22.4 million (including an adjustment for inflation).

Some choose to buy life insurance to provide their family enough money to continue their same lifestyle, others leave money specifically for funeral expenses and / or to pay off remaining debt or others choose to include money for their children's college education.

When the U.S, government passed laws in 2006 enacting the new parent - rights portions of the Work and Families Act, they extended pay and leave for new parents, including men on paternity leave.