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.
Too bad one of Obama’s boyfriends can’t knock him up, so he could go on an extended golf retreat.
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?
Every state I know of already pays disability of 6 weeks after childbirth, more if c-section.
This “leave” stuff, along with the ‘free’ jrcollege, seems more directed at the uninformed and uneducated of the recently arrived illegal type than the average generational American who already knows the game. Last week we were told that smaller government was racist and here Zero is this week pushing the perks of government jobs.
How about making them pay their past due income taxes.
If this keeps just one woman away from the abortion clinic, it's worth it.
The way Federal leave works is this.
Unless you prior military service you start at Leave Group 1, with prior service you start at Leave Group 2
For the first 5 years you are Leave Group 1 you get 4 hours annual leave every 2 weeks.
After 5 years you go to Leave Group 2 you get 6 hours every 2 weeks.
After 15 years you go to Leave Group 3 and get 8 hours every 2 weeks.
Most Fed employees can only carry over 250 hours before you start to lose, Sick leave there is no limit. When you retire you can count Annual Leave towards retirement, but sick leave you lose.
Every body gets 4 hours sick every 2 weeks.
Annual leave is considered a right, but sick leave is a benefit.
The way the sick leave rules are set up, its VERY easy to abuse the system, most Fed employees don’t have any sick leave, as soon as get any built up they call in.
6 weeks of sick leave is 240 hours, if you don't use any sick leave, it will take 2 years to pay it all back, not to mention that while all of this is going, the Government is paying their part of the Health Insurance and 401k.
All right, if women get 6 weeks, then men should get 6 weeks also. Or, they should be paid more for the simple fact that they are on the job more.
Pay should be tied to productivity, not gender.