1. CEPR News February 2013
(Matching tags: Haiti, medicare, minimum wage, FTT, ecuador, climate change, FMLA, work hours)

The newsletter highlights CEPR's latest research, publications, events and much more. CEPR on the Minimum Wage President Obama's call for an increase in the minimum wage during his State of the Union ...

2. The Family and Medical Leave Act at 20: A Record of Success, But More Can Be Done
(Matching tags: workers, paid family leave, FMLA, work/life, employers)

The federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) celebrated its 20th anniversary this month. It was a huge step forward for the U.S., which lags behind nearly all other high-income countries in enabling ...

3. The Family and Medical Leave Act at 20, Part 4
(Matching tags: workers, paid family leave, FMLA, work/life, employers)

... Act know about and have access to such leaves. The second entry showed that extending the FMLA to cover work sites with fewer than 50 workers would not be a heavy lift for smaller businesses, many of which ...

4. The Family and Medical Leave Act at 20, Part 3
(Matching tags: workers, paid family leave, FMLA, work/life, employers)

In Part 1 of this series we saw that two decades after passage of the FMLA, about a third of all workers (34 percent) still have not heard about the Act. More surprising, perhaps, is the finding that a ...

5. The Family and Medical Leave Act at 20, Part 2
(Matching tags: workers, paid family leave, FMLA, work/life, employers)

In Part 1 of this series we saw that two decades after passage of the FMLA, about a third of all workers (34 percent) still have not heard about the Act. More surprising, perhaps, is the finding that a ...

6. The Family and Medical Leave Act at 20, Part 1
(Matching tags: workers, paid family leave, FMLA, work/life, employers)

... that enable people to take the time they need to care for themselves and their families. The FMLA makes it possible for eligible employees to have time to recover from their own serious illness or from ...