Issue: Parental leave (either parent being able to take 12 weeks off work unpaid after their children are born). Suzanne Field in her essay gives five reasons why parental leave is a myth. Men cannot feed children with breast milk‚ Fields observes. Fathers are “not recovering from carrying extra pounds for nine month‚” they haven’t experienced labor pains‚ “and their bodies are not trying to deal with changing hormones and the flow of mother’s milk‚” Fields argues.(3) Men should be out working
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Dear Editor: I support Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party for president‚ on the issues of health care and paid leave. She has amazing ideas to create health care for everyone‚ and has plans to provide paid leave for a sick family member or a birth of a child. There are numerous reasons why Dr. Jill Stein’s health care plan will help Americans receive quality health insurance. As stated on Dr. Jill Stein’s official campaign website‚ creating a “single-payer public health program‚” and an improved
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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
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Paid Maternity Leave Case #4. The case shows a comparison between women and men in Germany to a woman in New Mexico and parents in America. In Germany‚ parents receive up to 47 weeks paid maternity leave‚ in New Mexico 5 weeks while in the United States 12 weeks’ unpaid leave under the FMLA Act that applies to 50% of workers alone. According to the case: LEAVE OPTIONS GOOD CONSEQUENCES BAD CONSEQUENCES PAID Job security protected Healthy family finance Lower risk of postpartum depression
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Advocates and policymakers have been calling out for paid family leave policies; some of these campaigns have seen recent successes. With the callings‚ a number of bills also have been introduced in the U.S. Congress that would expand the right to access family leave. The proposed Family and Medical Leave Inclusion Act (H.R. 1751/S. 846) would expand the definition of family under the FMLA to allow workers to take leave to care for a same-sex spouse‚ domestic partner‚ a parent-in-law‚ an adult child
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The United States is the only industrialized country in the world that does not mandate paid maternity leave. The International Labour Organization (ILO) Maternity Protection Convention explains that paid maternity leave is crucial for protecting the health and economic security of both women and children and therefore recommends a minimum standard of 14 weeks. Paid maternity leave is currently mandated throughout the world to advocate maternal and child health and make a positive impact on employees
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benefits‚ would they? Or is there such a suitable chance of just reaching retirement age more satisfying? One who is devoted into a occupation and willing to stay within a company for the appropriate amount of years. In most systems‚ shorter-tenured workers’ influences help subsidize benefits of longtime employees. Many of these short-term labors lose money because the interest from their annuity is a smaller amount of what they could earn by investing money on their own. Then and Now “We should always
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10 Steps Towards Promotion by Dennis B. Cox Introduction Have you ever wondered how to make it to that next step in the promotion ladder? How are some deserving of promotion while other seemingly qualified candidates are neglected? Following you’ll find several suggestions in getting that next promotion. This article is not intended to be a checklist—rather it is a guide that you may find helpful in your quest for promotion. 1. Invest In Your Annual Performance Appraisals Your annual
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Is Paid Sick Leave Good for Business On July 20‚ 2012‚ Caroline Winter published an article in Bloomberg Businessweek titled “Is Paid Sick Leave Good for Business” stating there is a group of women seeking a bill that would require companies to pay sick leave. This group is being led by feminist author Gloria Steinem. Cities such as San Francisco‚ Washing D.C.‚ and Connecticut have implemented paid sick leave as a city ordinance but New York’s City Council Speaker‚ Christine Quinn has previously
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Parental Responsibility and Smoking Perhaps one of the most explosive public issues‚ with distinct moral dimensions‚ is what parents are responsible for in their children’s behavior‚ including health-impeding ones such as smoking‚ drinking‚ and other matters. Although in some states it is illegal for those under 18 to smoke in public‚ never mind what the parents’ views are on the matter‚ we can consider the issue apart from this fact of the law. Once again the issue is one of context‚ not of categorical
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