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Mandated leave: an analysis of federal and state legislation
M Finn-Stevenson1, E Trzcinski
1Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy, Yale University.
The American Journal of Orthopsychiatry
|October 1, 1991
Abstract:
Results of a survey of federal and state legislation on family and medical leave, based on proposed legislative activities in 1986 and 1987 and on the outcome of these activities from 1986 to 1991, are presented. Major variations in employee provisions and employer protections are outlined and discussed, and likely directions for future legislation identified.
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