President Joe Biden Calls for Paid Family Leave

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program this Thursday, at a White House event to mark the 30th anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act. Joined on stage by Vice President , and former President Bill Clinton, President Biden said: “94 percent of our lowest wage workers, mostly women and workers of color, have no paid family leave at all.

I remain committed to changing that by passing a national program of paid leave for all.”“It's about being a country where women and all people can both work and raise a family,” he said. “How can we compete in a global economy of millions of American parents, especially moms, can't join the workforce?”His remarks, greeted by loud cheers from those in the audience, followed speeches by Vice President Harris and former President Clinton who also called for significant action and the implementation of paid leave.

Clinton, whose administration passed the Family and Medical Leave act—which guarantees workers job protection for up to 12 weeks to take time off to care for a newborn, adopted child or seriously ill family members—acknowledged that while the legislation was groundbreaking at the time, “there’s still a lot of problems that cannot be solved without some form of paid leave."In order to spark action, “we need more stories,” he declared. “Not process.

Stories.” Stories which Glamour is committed , through our landmark paid leave project. And Harris, who during her speech drew on her own experience of taking paid time off to care for her sick mother, said: “Women are 40 percent more likely to need family and medical leave, because they are more likely to take on caregiving responsibilities.