Maryland Gets D- For Workplace Family Policies
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Maryland has received a D- for its policies relating to how businesses treat new parents, according to a report released by the National Partnership for Women and Families It shares the same grade as Arkansas, Indiana, New Mexico and Texas, according to the May 2012 report. Rankings were calculated by whether states had paid family and medical leave, job-protected family leave that offers more protections than federal law and job-protected medical leave for pregnancy, childbirth or other related medical conditions. Federal law, through the Family and Medical Leave Act, enacted in 1993, requires workplaces with 50 or more workers to allow eligible employees to take job-protected unpaid time off for 12 weeks for specific family and medical …
H.R. Pufnstuf
9:06 pm on Tuesday, May 15, 2012
Obama's "Julia" character is a first class *LOSER*. She is beyond helpless. more ›