Posted on 01/14/2015 7:09:07 PM PST by Citizen Zed
Federal employes will be given at least six weeks of paid leave to care for new children under plans unveiled by the White House to kick-start legislative efforts to close the gap in family benefits offered by the US and other wealthy countries.
Democrats have been pushing for better maternity and sick leave rights for over a decade in Congress with little success, but plans by Barack Obama to back the passage of a Healthy Families Act with the executive action for government workers and $2.2bn of new funding for state efforts would be the first time the president has acted on the issue.
The long-stalled legislation would also allow workers in the private sector to earn up to seven days a year of paid sick time and although it is still opposed by most Republicans, Obama’s intervention ahead of the State of Union address next week suggests Democrats hope to make the policy an issue for emerging 2016 presidential candidates.
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and where does he get the power to do this.
all funding requests go through the house. not the white house.
I am sure mothers get the time already. Are they talking about giving the time to fathers, too? I am against that. Mothers have a physical reason for the absence.
It won't cost the taxpayers a dime. Think about it. You have to pay the government employee whether they work or not. If they aren't there because they are babysitting, there is no additional cost unless you hire a replacement. That won't be necessary because most government workers are non-essential and wouldn't be missed.
Too bad one of Obama’s boyfriends can’t knock him up, so he could go on an extended golf retreat.
and they are also disproportionately minorities as well.
And liberals are already declaring it a right.
They can already take 12 weeks leave without pay. And they accrue 104 hours (over 2.5 weeks of sick leave a year). So they could have 5 weeks paid leave if they’d just space their children every other year. And if they’ve been there 3 years, they get about 4 weeks of annual leave. And they get two weeks of holidays. And if they work a compressed schedule, they’ll get another 26 or 52 days off a year.
So it’s clear they need more paid time off.
If they promise to stop working they can just stay home.
This is fraud. Clinton already signed the Family Leave Act, allowing time for soon-to-be-mothers working for the federal government!
Are these Unionized Government workers ? You think they already have this or did he just double it
What’s the difference between this and the Family & Medical Leave Act?
This is paid.
thx.
He gets the power from the vacuum created by the lack of Republican leadership.
Under the Family and Medical Leave act, you can leave your just-delivered baby with the folks and jet-off to Amsterdam or Cyprus for three (3) full months of unpaid vacation, while your co-workers bust their tails doing your job as well as their own, and your employer can’t fire you.
Now it looks like you can get paid too. Ahh, Uncle Sugar!
Every state I know of already pays disability of 6 weeks after childbirth, more if c-section.
Full title: Emergency Medical Family Leave act, a Clinton creation. But that act didn’t pay workers for not working.
I’m surprised to see that some states consider pregnancy to be a “disability,” although it isn’t surprising coming from the federales, prominent Democrats having describing childbirth as a medical “emergency” equivalent to removing a tumor.
In any event, now federal employees can surf the internet at home and still get paid, even when they haven’t been sent home on paid leave because there isn’t enough money to pay them.
This is the Alice in Wonderland quality of Democrat federal personnel management and budgeting.
Offshore the job to India, problem solved.
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