Tag: medical leave
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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,…
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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…