{"id":1966,"date":"2011-01-11T22:54:03","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T03:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/girlwpen.com\/?p=1966"},"modified":"2011-01-11T22:54:03","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T03:54:03","slug":"nice-work-in-cali-family-leave-works","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/2011\/01\/11\/nice-work-in-cali-family-leave-works\/","title":{"rendered":"NICE WORK in cali: family leave works!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/documents\/publications\/paid-family-leave-1-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">first study<\/a> of California&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.paidfamilyleave.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">paid family leave<\/a> (PFL) program details just how well it works for employers as well as families. Through California&#8217;s Paid Family Leave, eligible employees receive up to six weeks of wage replacement at 55 percent of their usual earnings to bond with a new child or care for a seriously ill family member. It is funded solely by employees paying into the program.<\/p>\n<p>You can read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/\" target=\"_blank\">Center for Economic Policy and Research&#8217;s<\/a> Eileen Appelbaum and UCLA\/CUNY&#8217;s Ruth Milkman&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cepr.net\/documents\/publications\/paid-family-leave-1-2011.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">report for the details<\/a> but here are a few highlights:<\/p>\n<p>A representative sample of 253 employers and 500 employees using PFL were surveyed in 2009-2010. Appelbaum and Milkman found that an overwhelming majority reported good results. Here&#8217;s what employers reported:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>89 percent said that PFL had \teither a \u201cpositive effect\u201d or \u201cno noticeable effect\u201d on \tproductivity.<\/li>\n<li>For 91 percent, \tprofitability\/performance was neutral or positively affected.<\/li>\n<li>96 percent reported a positive of \tneutral effect on turnover<\/li>\n<li>99 percent (!) reported positive \tor neutral effects on employee morale<\/li>\n<li>91 percent said \u201cNo\u201d \twhen asked if they were aware of any employee abuses of the \tprogram.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>And from workers, a few highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>84 percent of those in low-quality \tjobs using paid family leave received at least half of their usual \tpay while on leave.<\/li>\n<li>Only 41 percent of workers in \tlow-quality jobs not using PFL received any pay while on leave<\/li>\n<li>The rate of bonding claims filed \tby men has climbed steadily since the beginning of PFL.<\/li>\n<li>Duration of breastfeeding among \tnew mothers who used PFL also increased.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The report explains, &#8220;According to California\u2019s Employment Development Department, in FY 09-10, 167,253 Californians used Paid Family Leave for bonding with new children and 23,220 used it to provide care for seriously ill family members.&#8221; Even so, one of the biggest problems they report is that too few people know they are eligible to participate. According to the report, &#8220;half the workers interviewed did not know the program existed, despite having had a qualifying circumstance for which to use PFL; low-wage workers, immigrants, and Latinos were least likely to be aware of the program.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/?page_id=31\">-Virginia Rutter<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first study of California&#8217;s paid family leave (PFL) program details just how well it works for employers as well as families. Through California&#8217;s Paid Family Leave, eligible employees receive up to six weeks of wage replacement at 55 percent of their usual earnings to bond with a new child or care for a seriously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nice-work"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/girlwpen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}