AP: Labor Dept. Reviews Family Leave Rules

[Eugene]

Labor Dept. Reviews Family Leave Rules
Labor Department is reviewing rules that allow for family and medical leave
for workers

WASHINGTON, Nov. 30, 2006
By JEANNINE AVERSA AP Economics Writer
(AP) The Bush administration is examining regulations that give workers unpaid leave
to deal with family or medical emergencies, making some supporters of the rules wary
that worker protections might be scaled back.

The Labor Department said Thursday it will seek comment from the public, employers,
workers and other interested parties on the matter. Comments are due to the agency
by Feb. 2.

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The department is seeking feedback on a range of issues. They include matters related
to eligibility standards for employees, what constitutes a serious health condition
and whether steps need to be taken to boost employees' awareness of their rights.

"This is meant to be a very objective review," Victoria Lipnic, assistant secretary
for the Labor Department's Employment Standards Administration, said in an interview
with The Associated Press.

-snip-

Full article: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/30/ap/health/mainD8LNKRV80.shtml

[Double T]

1. There is another bushco worker's rights screwin' abrewin'............

What ELSE would 'WE' expect the corporate corrupter-in-chief???

[williesgirl]

2. Why now? This law has been on the books for years, working well. Repukes must want to fuck it up

[LisaM]

3. That is a good law and they'd better not monkey with it

I'm sure it's been on their wish list for years.

Thank God for the November elections.

A lot of people ask me if I feel like celebrating after the elections. In reality, it's more a sense of relief, as if a big rock had been rolled off my shoulders - mostly because we have a chance to stop crap like this.

Before FMLA, I worked at a daycare. Kids would come in sick, because their mothers couldn't use their own sick days to stay home with them. Now, parents can use sick days to take care of kids. Does the bush administration have a problem with that?

[katsy]

5. Oh yes bushco* has a problem with it...

they simply can't fathom why working moms wouldn't simply call in their nannies.

:sarcasm:

Not that it needs saying, but repubics have a disdain for the working masses... unless they are paid $2 a day and never fall ill. Should some laborer fall ill, they should pay for their own healthcare out of their meger paycheck or just go die in some ditch. Beautiful minds don't need bothering with our bullshit concern, like survival or caring for our families. We're working ants. Other healthier breeders will supply them with enough labor to use in their quest for more $ and power.

The rich and powerful don't need us, they don't need to throw the working masses one stinking bone. They have a whole world of worker ants to use, abuse and kick to the curb.

[kestrel91316]

7. I think the Bush admin has a problem with the very idea of

"working mothers". If they stayed at home like they are supposed to, they wouldn't need "family medical leave".

[katsy]

8. How can working moms survive if they don't work?

I mean what if they're not married?

Even an average middle class family on 2 salaries can bearly make it.

[kestrel91316]

11. I think they expect them to lie in the beds they made - IOW,

stay at home with the baby and starve. Or beg on the streets. Or marry the first man who comes along willing to house and feed her. They sure as hell DON'T want them in the workforce.

[Union Thug]

4. Another reason the dems should NOT move toward ANY bipartisan

olive branch crap with the labor hating conservatives.

These bastards clearly hate workers and hate american families.

[Dr.Phool]

6. That viper, Mrs Mitch McConnell, coiled to strike workers again.

AKA Elaine Chao.

[cap]

12. she has presided over the dismantling of all kinds of worker protection

you name it, she's done it. This is the latest of outrages starting from dismantling union protection, EEOC, OSHA, etc.

We need to turn the firehose on the Dept of LABOR when she's out of there.

[madrchsod]

9. somebody get these stupid fucks a weatherman

cause they sure the fuck don`t know which way the wind blows.

[InkAddict]

10. A consultant should not be an "only child"

Heads up, young ones! -- bug your folks for a sibling while there's still time, and hope that yours will be helpful and share nicely, or be sure to become the next lottery winner. For goodness sakes, don't become a consultant when you grow up.

One must be employed by the same employer for one year to be eligible for this "benefit," and consultant's gigs rarely last that long any more. Only Children, notwithstanding marital status, are often mandated by many states to care for elderly loved ones and/or minor dependents, and have few job/career protections from the myriad of responsibilities involved in proactive caregiving. Caregiving, of course, is also very stressful, isolating, and just plain dangerous to one's own physical and mental health when supporting programs go unfunded or are inaccessible. Of course, the "Only Child" might consider making their loved ones "wards" thus providing the very best
the State decides it has to offer in terms of dignified care. :sarcasm: