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From Center for Law and Social Policy:
This letter responds to the Department of Labor's request for information regarding the administration and operation of the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA).
The Center for Law and Social Policy (CLASP) fully supports the FMLA, which provides critical flexibility to millions of American workers and allows them to balance their workplace and family responsibilities.
The request for information raises concern that the Department of Labor may be considering changes to the regulations, changes that would roll back the FMLA's protections or scale back coverage for workers' health and family needs.
CLASP strongly opposes changes that would limit the scope of the FMLA and supports regulations that will ensure workers can take full advantage of their FMLA protections.
Similarly, parents who are unable to take leave are more likely to send their children to school or child care sick, spreading illness to other families.
It would cost society far more to provide such care through paid health care providers.
While there is no doubt that it is sometimes inconvenient for employers when key workers take family or medical leave, this would be the case without the FMLA as well.
Society can't protect everyone against the risk of a serious health condition, but it is appropriate to assure workers that they can take needed family and medical leave without jeopardizing their jobs.
Permitting workers to use their accrued paid leave as wage replacement during FMLA leave makes it possible for them to afford to take time off to address critical family and medical issues.
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Posted on February 14, 2007 09:48 PM
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