Sentence examples for leave mandate from inspiring English sources

In 2011, for example, Licata tried to lower the expectations of constituents who met with him about a paid sick leave mandate opposed by local employers.

It may seem awkward for a remainer to enact a leave mandate, but no one can fairly accuse May of Europhiliac, open-door liberalism.

Robert Henneke, the foundation's general counsel, said a paid sick leave mandate is unnecessary.

U.S. Labor Secretary Tom Perez, who has been leading the Obama administration's push for federal paid family leave, said in Palo Alto in January that businesses are losing out in the absence of a paid leave mandate.

Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.

New parents in these groups were expected to use the 12 weeks of unpaid leave mandated by the federal Family Medical Leave Act.

Our results have important implications for the design of leave policy: the broadening of family leaves beyond parental leaves reduces inequality in likelihood of leave; the introduction of leaves for routine family demands probably does little to reduce gender inequality; unpaid leaves mandated by the FMLA may sustain inequality.

But there's a marketing memo circulating somewhere that gives the "no small-breasted women left behind" mandate.

While the Family and Medical Leave Act mandates that employers offer 12 weeks of unpaid leave for new parents, this is not a viable option for many families living on a tight budget.

"Paid sick leave mandates sound like a good idea," Sen. Lamar Alexander (R-Tenn)., the top Republican on the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, said at a hearing last month.

The courts should respect legal precedent and the will of Congress and leave the mandate in place.