03/28/2017

Who Should Pay for Paid Leave, Anyway?

While it has broad support, the devil lies in the details

According to the Pew Research Center, paid family and medical leave has generally broad support, but the devil is in the details—in terms of employee impact, policy strategy and outsider support.

Paid family and medical leave is one of those things that’s sounds good but has proved complicated to implement.

And a recent Pew Research Center study reveals why that is. “Americans Widely Support Paid Family and Medical Leave, but Differ Over Specific Policies,” released last week, shows that most people support paid medical leave. In the case of sick individuals, 85 percent of those surveyed said workers should receive paid leave. For working mothers and fathers, 82 percent in the survey said women should receive paid leave after giving birth or adopting, and 69 percent said men should receive paid paternity leave.

Please click here to read the complete article from Associations Now.