Sentences with phrase «paid family leave once»

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He also embraced two of the causes he once scoffed at: a $ 15 an hour minimum wage and paid family leave.

«It's once again New York leading way, the way we did on raising minimum wage, the way we did on paid family leave, the way we did on passing marriage equality, the way we did on gun safety and it should be a wakeup call to this nation to say if you really want to be competitive globally, we have to have the best educated workforce and that means we have to have college for every child, man or woman, who wants to attend.»

The Democratic governor's statements came as his negotiating partners in the State Assembly and Senate once again huddled with their rank - and - file colleagues to discuss a spending plan that will total more than $ 140 billion, raise the minimum wage and implement a system of paid family leave.

Once fully phased in, the program will allow employees to be eligible for 12 weeks of paid leave to care for an infant, or family member with a serious illness.

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.

This is what the family will have left to live on once all the bills are paid.