Sentences with phrase «law for paid family leave»

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They ranged from raising the minimum wage, passing gun safety laws, paid family leave, equal pay for women, and protecting access to «safe and legal abortions.»

Federal law does not require paid family and medical leave, and only 18 percent of U.S. businesses offer paid family leave, according to the HR professional organization Society for Human Resource Management's 2016 Employee Benefits Survey.

According to the AARP's voter guide, Senate hopefuls Fred Akshar and Barbara Fiala agree on at least one thing: New York should adopt a paid family leave insurance law to help overstressed caregivers and the loved ones for whom they care.

The Paid Family Leave law spearheaded by Cuomo will start to make things a little easier on new parents — but it's still not enough, especially for lower - and middle - income restaurant workers.

«The Independent Democratic Conference delivers for New Yorkers: the best paid family leave program in the nation, a $ 15 minimum wage, and the toughest gun laws in the country,» Hamilton said in a statement issued Monday afternoon.

He can take credit for progressive accomplishments under his reign like a phased - in $ 15 minimum wage, paid family leave, and strict gun control measures, ignoring the fact that regular Democrats endorsed all these things and would have passed them into law if they too sat in the majority.

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.

The WFP was an early backer of the campaign for a $ 15 minimum wage and the paid family leave law and helped recruit iron worker Randy Bryce to run for retiring House Speaker Paul Ryan's congressional seat in Wisconsin.

Samuelsen, noting that Cuomo pushed through a $ 15 minimum wage, a paid family leave law and free public college tuition for middle class families, said it's baffling for the WFP wouldn't endorse him.

He championed a $ 15 minimum wage and enacted a 12 - week paid family leave policy; got strict gun control into law; introduced a free (though imperfect) college tuition program for certain students; banned fracking; allocated $ 10 million for a defense fund for immigrants facing deportation; and raised the age for juvenile offenders to 18.

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.

The governor's push for a state 12 - week paid family leave law would only cover 35 percent of a person's salary in the first year.

«Governor Cuomo passed a $ 15 minimum wage, the strongest paid family leave program and gun control laws in the nation, banned fracking, raised the age of criminal responsibility, and enacted the first - ever free college tuition program for middle class families.

Additional information on New York State's Paid Family Leave law, along with numerous resources for employers and workers, can be found on the Paid Family Leave website.

«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.

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.

While signing the bill to increase the state's minimum wage, Cuomo also signed into a law a plan that will require businesses to provide 12 weeks of paid family leave to anyone caring for an infant or a family member with a serious health condition.

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.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand faces an uphill battle in getting paid family leave for workers into 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.

Ever since Zephyr Teachout, an unknown law professor, challenged him for his second - term run in 2014 to surprising results in the primary, he has been forced to tack left — signing legislation two years ago to enact a $ 15 an hour minimum wage as well as paid family leave.

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

Among them: the legalization of same - sex marriage, passage of the SAFE Act gun control law, enactment of a $ 15 hourly minimum wage, creation of a statewide paid family leave program and the establishment of a free tuition program for some public college students.

Secretary Clinton also praised New York's newly passed paid family leave law, which will allow for up to 12 weeks of leave with up to two thirds pay, when fully phased in several years from now.

Plus, the state doesn't offer any of the single - parent support systems GOBankingRates considered for our rankings: no law guaranteeing paid family leave, no state earned - income tax credit and no expanded Medicare.

The UK offers far more maternity leave than the European law minimum and the charity Working Families, intervening in the case, submitted that the policy arguments for a difference in pay might become less compelling several months after a child is born, a submission which met with the approval of the EAT.

Some of the most common are wrongful termination, discrimination, retaliation, violations of the Family Medical Leave Act, violations of the Fair Employment and Housing Act, Violations of the California Family Rights Act, privacy breaches (e.g. disclosure of a medical condition to someone who did not need to know), contract breaches, unfair bargaining and / or union and labor law disputes, unpaid wages, unpaid overtime, failure to pay minimum wage for all hours worked, failure to provide proper pay stubs, failure to pay for unused vacation days upon resignation or termination, failure to pay for all hours worked within 72 hours of quitting, failure to pay for all hours worked immediately upon leaving when the employee gives fair notice or resignation to the employer, failure to keep adequate records, failure to produce employment records upon request, failure to provide wage and pay information upon hiring, misclassification of an hourly employee as an exempt employee, misclassification of an hourly employee as an independent contractor, work place bullying, sexual harassment, disparate impact, disparate treatment, class actions for failure to pay wages and over time, class actions for failure to provide meal and rest breaks, and class actions for failure to reimburse employees for expenses.

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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).

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.

The District of Columbia Council gave final approval in late December for a new Paid Family Leave law.

Moreover, it leaves clients at the doorstep in that they must then retain a private lawyer to draft a formal agreement of their understanding and then are left to file for the divorce on their own without any guidance or direction, unless they pay additional fees to a legal professional who can guide them through the administrative divorce filing process in PA. (Main Line Family Law Center helps clients to obtain a fully comprehensive and legally binding marital settlement agreement, and also file the divorce with the county court.

On top of that, the state doesn't offer an earned - income tax credit for low - income taxpayers, hasn't expanded Medicaid and doesn't have a law guaranteeing paid family leave.

Plus, Florida doesn't have a state law guaranteeing that workers will continue to get paid a share of their wages if they have to leave work to care for family members.

Although it has approved Medicaid expansion, Hawaii doesn't have a state paid family leave law or an earned - income tax credit for low - income taxpayers.