Most Pa. workers can’t take paid leave to care for sick loved ones. State law could change that
02/20/24 at 03:00 AM
Most Pa. workers can’t take paid leave to care for sick loved ones. State law could change that
WESA Pittsburgh's NPR News Station, by Kristen Mosbrucker-Garza; 2/18/24
About 66% of workers statewide don’t have paid family and medical leave benefits, according to a U.S. Census compensation survey from March 2022. And the brunt of that unpaid work often falls on any women in the household, said Meghan Pierce, CEO of the Executive Forum of Women in Philadelphia. ... The Executive Forum of Women, created in the late 1970s, is one organization in the coalition of nonprofits and businesses pushing to get paid family medical leave as a state law in Pennsylvania.