Tag: paid family and medical leave

The pandemic exposed inequities in the U.S. healthcare system. It also revealed a related shortcoming in our workplaces: the lack of mandated paid family and medical leave for most Americans – and especially lower-paid workers. The United States is the only developed country that does not have a national policy of paid time off for…

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 Massachusetts will be eligible for: Up to 12 weeks: to care for new child or…