Virginia lawmakers push richer employer-provided benefits to workers

Virginia lawmakers push richer employer-provided benefits to worker
The Center Square, by Morgan Sweeney; 1/30/24
Calling her state and America behind "the entire industrialized world," a Virginia senator is one of two lawmakers pushing legislation to implement an employer-provided benefit to workers. ... The program would guarantee that employees taking time off for the birth of a child or “an illness, injury, impairment ... or physical or mental condition that involves inpatient care in a hospital, hospice, or residential medical care facility or continuing treatment by a health care provider” would continue to receive 80% of their paycheck for up to 12 weeks of leave.