Article: U. Oklahoma staff contribute vacation time, money to sick colleague

Article: Paid leave among university faculty continues to rise; Taxpayer expense: Scholars travel across the world to conduct research
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  January 22, 2002 ;     423 words ......to show for the time away. The cost of paid leave is predicted to grow this year, state...universities' budgets for this year. Paid leave was given to 146 professors from the...year. Nearly 140 professors will take paid leave next year. The Board of Regents last...

Article: Group lobbies paid leave for workers who donate an organ.
Employee Benefit News;  August 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ......of all sizes and types to establish a paid leave program for living organ donation. Twenty-nine states also have policies to give paid leave to organ donors, and many have related...pending. The federal government has had a paid leave policy since 1999, according to AST...

Article: Paid leave insurance gains worker favor
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  July 29, 2007 ;     599 words ......Record (Bergen County, NJ) 07-29-2007 Paid leave insurance gains worker favor -- Corzine...pushing for a new bill that would guarantee paid leave of 10 weeks to workers who need time...newborns and newly adopted children. This paid leave — providing two-thirds pay up to...

Article: Lawmakers take new look at Paid Leave/House debates bill for seasonal workers
Yakima Herald-Republic;  February 13, 2003 ;     468 words ...Workers who don't get paid leave or vacation would receive a week's paid leave for every six months of work under a bill to be...who work in farm, fishing and forestry have no paid leave, the highest of any occupational category. "Farming...

Article: LESS PAID LEAVE FOR POOR PARENTS
United Press International;  April 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ...United Press International 04-28-2004 Less paid leave for poor parents WASHINGTON, Apr 28...who recently left welfare cannot take paid leave from their jobs," author and UI researcher...moving off welfare, also tend to get less paid leave, the study suggested. While the federal...

Article: N.J. offers 6 weeks of paid leave to workers
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque);  April 8, 2008 ;     432 words ......require companies to offer six weeks of paid leave to workers wishing to care for a new...bill that would offer up to six weeks paid leave. The Assembly approved the Democratic...and business groups, parents could take paid leave anytime in the first year after a child...

Article: Editorial -- Paid-Leave Legislation Reaches Beyond Where Public Policy Should Go
Yakima Herald-Republic;  February 18, 2003 ;     462 words ......greatly expanding the scope and purpose of paid leave. In both cases, lawmakers are meddling with...children. Under HB 1221, workers who don't get paid leave or vacation would receive a week's paid leave for every six months of work. Even part...

Article: Paid leave bill nears final stretch
Daily Breeze;  August 29, 2002 ;     652 words ...Paid leave bill nears final stretch LABOR: The measure...SB1661 would be the first to establish a paid leave program in the country. But "if this...program to grant workers up to six weeks of paid leave to carefor a new child or ill family...

Article: COUNTY WORKERS UNDER INVESTIGATION COLLECT PAID LEAVE SOME SUSPENSIONS EXCEEDED ONE YEAR.(News)(Statistical Data Included)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  November 11, 2003 ;     612 words ......issued Monday found. More than 170 were on paid leave for six months or longer, and 15 workers...learning that the county has no policy on paid leave during investigations, ``believes the...state departments combined - have been on paid leave for more than a month, including a ...

Article: Legislature wrestles with paid leave bill
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  December 24, 2007 ;     519 words ......12-24-2007 Legislature wrestles with paid leave bill -- Covers care for relatives, newborns...becomes the third state to let workers take paid leave to care for a sick relative or newborn...New Jersey workers with up to 10 weeks' paid leave advanced through two Senate committees...

Article: Paid leave for resigning U.S. attorney questioned.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  July 15, 2003 ;     602 words ......the decision to give her two months of paid leave. Miquelon said in a telephone interview...there's no consensus on the issue of paid leave, according to members of various associations...S. Attorney Anton Valukas received no paid leave when he resigned in 1989 as U.S. attorney...

Article: Paid Leave
AP Images;  March 3, 2008 ;     69 words ......in Trenton, N.J., after the vote on a paid leave bill by New Jersey Senate Majority Leader...D-Gloucester, that would let workers take paid leave to care for a sick relative or a newborn...22-16, would grant employees six weeks paid leave and prompted an emotional debate among...

Article: Parental paid leave criticized as costly
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  January 14, 2004 ;     538 words ......Bergen County, NJ) 01-14-2004 Parental paid leave criticized as costly -- Business leaders...employers to give their employees 16 hours of paid leave each year to deal with child sickness...Goldberg, too, questioned the need for the paid leave. "Most companies are very conscious of...

Article: Paid leave for resigning U.S. attorney questioned.(St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  July 15, 2003 ;     602 words ......the decision to give her two months of paid leave. Miquelon said in a telephone interview...there's no consensus on the issue of paid leave, according to members of various associations...S. Attorney Anton Valukas received no paid leave when he resigned in 1989 as U.S. attorney...