Tag: paid family leave

February 5, 2020

President Donald Trump called attention to the economy, paid family leave, health care, job training and second-chance hiring in his annual State of the Union (SOTU) address on Feb. 4. It was the last SOTU address of the current presidential […]

January 7, 2020

Paid maternity and paternity leave has been a long-debated topic in the United States, as it is one of the last remaining developed countries without formal legislation in place guaranteeing working parents paid time off to care for their new […]

July 19, 2019

Oregon is joining the ranks of states with a paid family leave law. During its recent session, the state legislature passed a compromise bill similar to the law in neighboring Washington. Oregon’s law, which won’t go into full effect until […]

July 2, 2019

At SHRM’s 2019 Annual Conference & Exposition, I got to sit down with paid family leave expert Breanna Scott, CSPO and Director of Business Relations at The Standard. We discussed the state of paid family leave today and what it […]

March 19, 2019

More states are considering paid family leave bills, and lawmakers said they want to hear from human resource professionals about how these laws might affect the workplace. “When there are bills related to employment law … you really need to […]

December 22, 2016

The District of Columbia Council approved a bill on December 20 requiring employers to give workers eight weeks’ paid leave for the birth, adoption, or foster placement of a child. Employers will pay for the leave through a payroll tax. […]