The Maine Paid Go away Coalition will host a “day of motion” Tuesday on the State Home to mark the thirtieth anniversary of the federal Household and Medical Go away Act and promote a Maine invoice that’s anticipated to be submitted within the Legislature this month.
A state fee made up of legislators, specialists and activists additionally is predicted to launch formal suggestions this month calling for a paid household and medical go away system that advantages all Mainers. Assist for a paid go away measure has grown since Democrats have retained management of the Home, Senate and Blaine Home.
Household and medical go away usually is funded by a payroll tax charged to employers and staff. It permits individuals to take paid day off for the delivery of a kid or to look after a sick or ageing relative.
Nationally, solely 20% of personal sector staff have entry to paid household go away by an employer and solely 42% have entry to short-term incapacity insurance coverage. Practically one in 4 employed moms return to work inside two weeks of giving delivery and one in 5 retirees go away the workforce sooner than deliberate to look after an unwell member of the family.
The liberal advocacy group Maine Individuals’s Alliance and the Maine Girls’s Foyer collected greater than 80,000 petition signatures to get a referendum on paid household go away earlier than Maine voters, however they determined to forgo placing the difficulty on the November poll due to the pending laws.
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