NBC Los Angeles

As Democrats Update Their Plan for National Paid Family and Medical Leave, Here's What It Could Mean for Workers

Many workers need to take leave at some point to address their own health needs or to care for a loved one. Yet whether workers have access to those benefits is up to their employer or state. Stream ...
WESA

Pa. Senate Democrats back bill requiring employers to provide leave for family care

The Pennsylvania Capitol on Monday, Dec. 22, 2025. A committee of state Senate Democrats on Tuesday discussed a proposal to require Pennsylvania employers to provide 24 hours of paid leave for “small ...
Yahoo

New federal paid leave framework confronts familiar divide on Capitol Hill

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The U.S. Capitol Building is seen on December 2, 2024 in Washington, D.C. The latest proposal of the One Big Beautiful Bill calls ...
In These Times

The Largest Share Ever of U.S. Workers Now Have Access to Paid Leave

There’s still no federal paid leave policy in the United States, but 14 laws now extend coverage to an estimated 46 million ...
KUOW

House Democrats are bringing back paid leave in their spending bill

Paid family and medical leave is back in Democrats' sweeping domestic policy bill. In a letter to colleagues Wednesday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., wrote that the inclusion of paid leave is ...

State-mandated paid leave programs now cover millions of American workers

Nearly one-third of the nation’s private sector workers are covered by paid leave programs as more states require employers ...