Article: Lawmakers take new look at Paid Leave/House debates bill for seasonal workers

Article: Editorial -- Paid-Leave Legislation Reaches Beyond ...
Yakima Herald-Republic;  February 18, 2003 ;     666 words ... ... workers who don't get paid leave or vacation would receive a week's paid leave for every six months ... and the new expanded paid leave law are bad policy ... backers - the Economic Opportunity Institute, a Seattle nonprofit ...

Article: Taking (Back) the Initiative : AN ACTIVIST THINK TANK IS FIGHTING ...
The Nation;  June 18, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... progressive social change. --The Editors The Economic Opportunity Institute sounds like a typical think tank--of any political ... opportunity to set the terms of discussion. The Economic Opportunity Institute--starting out three years ago in a few cubicles in ...

Article: LESS PAID LEAVE FOR POOR PARENTS
United Press International;  April 28, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... 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: Group lobbies paid leave for workers who donate an ...
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: BC-NJ--Paid Leave,0656 In N.J., offering paid ...
Burlington County Times;  March 15, 2008 ;     700+ words ...BC-NJ--Paid Leave,0656 In N.J., offering paid leave is an emotional debate stft By TOM HESTER Jr. Associated ... touches on a law requiring companies to grant workers paid leave to care for a newborn, newly adopted child or sick ...

Article: New Jersey Paid Leave Makes Legislative Advances.
Business Wire;  March 4, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... Appropriations Committee. The push for paid leave Although the federal Family and Medical ... allowing workers to take up to six weeks of paid leave, and Washington, which recently passed a law providing for up to five weeks of paid leave for the birth or adoption of a child ...

Article: Paid leave insurance gains worker favor
The Record (Bergen County, NJ);  July 29, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... 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 ...