“Family leave allows employees to take time off from work to care for their families, deal with an emergency or recuperate from a serious illness with a guaranteed job when they return.”
“Job- and benefit-protected leaves for working parents including maternity (birth or adoption), paternity, parental, child-rearing, care for an ill child, time to accompany a child to school for the first time, or to visit a child’s school, personal leaves. May be paid or unpaid. When paid, benefit is usually included in taxable income.”
Paid Family Leave Coalition. (2001). Bargaining Fact Sheet: Family leave and expanding the Family and Medical Leave Act. Retrieved April 26, 2006, from http://www.working-families.org/learnmore/factsheets/familyleave.pdf
The Clearinghouse on International Developments in Child, Youth & Family Policies. (2002). Mother’s day: More than candy and flowers, working parents need time off. Issue Brief, Spring 2002. Retrieved May 10, 2006, from http://www.childpolicyintl.org/issuebrief/issuebrief5.htm.