Tag: medical leave

Close up of an arm in a cast next to a doctor holding a bottle of pills

It reduces Social Security applications and new beneficiaries. Enthusiasm seems to be running high for Family and Medical Leave programs.  My views are mixed: as a human I can see some benefit; as a person trying to run a small organization, extended leaves are just annoying.  Some critics have a more specific concern – namely,…

The Massachusetts State House - a state capitol for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

While a desirable goal, financing amounts to 25 percent of money needed to fix Social Security. On October 1, Massachusetts introduced a combined employer-employee tax of 0.75 percent of earnings, capped at the Social Security maximum of $132,900, to pay for a new program of family and medical leave.  Specifically, beginning in 2021, employees in…