A national 4-week paid family leave plan would be 'transformational,' expert says
"It's really important to lay the foundation, and this would be a good base," Romig said. "And then the idea would be either that states could top it off or that at the federal level eventually the program could be expanded."Molly Day, executive director at Paid Leave for the United States, said in a statement that a temporary paid leave program would be "insufficient.
"It is imperative that the final bill meets the desperate needs of working families with a permanent federal framework," Day said. Dawn Huckelbridge, director at Paid Leave for All, said her organization is also working to make the case that a new paid leave policy should be permanent.Amid the ongoing pandemic and related caregiving challenges people face, a federal paid leave policy could help alleviate those burdens, she said.
"Paid leave is a job retention policy," Huckelbridge said. "This is about keeping people in their jobs and working."
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