Pros And Cons Of Paid Leave

A paid leave plan by Marco Rubio is employer-sponsored plan providing 25% tax incentives when employers voluntarily offer at least four weeks of paid leave to their workers. However, his tax credit plan is ineffective in offering paid leave to lower-income workers who really need it. Although many businesses where higher-income workers work already offers it, most low-income workers belong to the businesses that do not offer it. So Rubio's paid leave plan would provide small tax credit for the companies of higher-workers, and hardly motivate employers, who already do not offer it, to do so. Therefore, Miller argues that Rubio's paid leave plan rarely gives benefits to lower-income workers. Like paid leave, in terms of flexibility on work, lower-income parents get unequal opportunities due to the differences in job characteristics. Many higher-income parents in large companies already work with flextime, and also flexplace, like telecommuting, is sometimes allowed for them
Based on the article, lower-income parents tend to face difficulties like poverty while they do not work. So, they easily confront home and work dilemmas. If paid family leave is allowed for lower-income parents too, they can spend more time with their family without worrying livelihood. Therefore, in terms of family time, paid family leave complements disadvantage of lower-income parents’ work flexibility and narrows the flexibility gap with higher-income parents. Paid family leave also benefits higher-income parents in terms of work-family balance. Perceived job flexibility, complimented by paid family leave, is beneficial to both higher-income parents and their businesses because it enables them to work longer (Hill, 2001). With the work-family balance, higher-income parents can spend enough time for family togetherness, which they ideally expect, making good memories with their children (Daly,