Senator Ted Kennedy (D-MA) and House Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) have introduced a bill to Congress called the Healthy Families Act. If approved as written, this act would require empoyers with 15 or more employees to pay up to 56 hours of paid leave. T
his one-size-fits-all approach can be as harmful to employees as it is to employers. If this bill is enacted and the employer forced to comply, other benefits - such as paid time off will have to be altered because the cost of maintaining both would be a hardship on the employer. Who loses in this case, the employee because they are now forced to have a benefit which is less flexible.
As this bill progesses, I will keep you posted on my blog.
his one-size-fits-all approach can be as harmful to employees as it is to employers. If this bill is enacted and the employer forced to comply, other benefits - such as paid time off will have to be altered because the cost of maintaining both would be a hardship on the employer. Who loses in this case, the employee because they are now forced to have a benefit which is less flexible. As this bill progesses, I will keep you posted on my blog.
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