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Should government mandate paid maternity leave?

New Jersey's Senate on Monday voted to provide paid family leave in the state. The measure will provide up to six weeks paid leave to care for a newborn, newly adopted child or a seriously ill family member. Workers taking the leave would receive up to two-thirds of their salary (up to a maximum of $524 weekly), which would be funded by an 0.09 percent tax on workers' salaries that would amount to an average of roughly $33 a year. The bill has been opposed by business groups. Such requirements are rare around the country; should government mandate paid leave?

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Ben likes: Damsels in Distress?

John Stossel, Capitalism Magazine

I understand her pain. Elizabeth has a lot of responsibility: a full-time job, plus two young kids at home. I would find it overwhelming. But does that mean the government should impose leave, day care, and flex-time policies on employers or make taxpayers bear the cost for the choices women make?

No!

All these well-intended laws have unintended consequences, and the consequences are usually worse than the problem they were meant to solve. When governments require companies to provide paid maternity leave and other benefits, many firms avoid hiring women. How is that good for women?

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Joel likes: Catching up on family values

New York Times

Business groups argue that paid leave would encourage significantly more workers to take time off and that replacing them would be too burdensome for small companies. However, a legislative study in California suggests these fears may be unfounded. During the first year of the program, which took effect in 2004, only about 1 percent of the eligible employees filed for benefits — a number that has not increased significantly since.

A survey by the McGill Institute for Health and Social Policy reports that 169 countries offer mothers paid maternal leave and 66 offer new fathers paid leave. Thirty-nine nations grant paid leave to workers whose children are ill, and 23 offer it to employees to care for other family members.

It’s time for more states in America to follow suit. Better yet, Congress should make paid family leave national policy. Elected officials would then be in a better position to talk about the importance of the family without sounding hypocritical.

 

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Many people consider the day their child was born the happiest day in their life. In the world's wealthier countries, that is. In poorer countries, the day a child born is all too often the day its mother dies. In high-fertility countries in sub-Saharan Africa, women have a one in 16 chance of dying in childbirth. In low-fertility countries in Europe, this number is one in 2,000 and in North America it's one in 3,500.
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Paid Family Leave Hurts Women

Submitted on April 9th, 2008 by Chuck_Johnson

Stossel said it best.

When you make it easy for women to get paid for time off, you hurt the economy.

Is it any wonder why New Jersey is the laughing stock of the nation? And why so many people leave there?

Chuck Johnson is a student at Claremont McKenna College. Feel free to contact him.

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