{"id":7824,"date":"2016-03-13T19:00:47","date_gmt":"2016-03-13T12:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/paid-leave-a-modern-family-value-and-momentum-is-building-state-by-state\/"},"modified":"2016-03-13T19:05:02","modified_gmt":"2016-03-13T12:05:02","slug":"paid-leave-a-modern-family-value-and-momentum-is-building-state-by-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/paid-leave-a-modern-family-value-and-momentum-is-building-state-by-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Paid leave a modern family value and momentum is building state by state"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nAs the Obama administration faces challenges reversing federal policy, Vermont and Minnesota among the local jurisdictions transforming the benefits landscapeLast week, Vermont became the fifth state in the country to pass legislation requiring companies to provide their employees with at least three paid sick days a year. It was the latest example of how, little by little, states and local jurisdictions are doing what Barack Obama has been unable to do from his lofty perch in the White House \u2013 implementing new family-friendly policies on issues such as ensuring sick workers don\u2019t have to choose between losing money (or even their jobs) and getting even sicker by going to work, or caring for a new baby or unwell child and their job.  Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/us-money-blog\/2016\/mar\/13\/paid-leave-benefits-vermont-minnesota-congress-obama\" target=\"_blank\">Paid leave a modern family value and momentum is building state by state<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; As the Obama administration faces challenges reversing federal policy, Vermont and Minnesota among the local&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-22c","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":122345,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/chinas-local-authorities-take-a-hard-look-at-evergrandes-projects-to-ring-fence-any-collapse-from-hurting-their-jurisdictions\/","url_meta":{"origin":7824,"position":0},"title":"China\u2019s local authorities take a hard look at Evergrande\u2019s projects to ring fence any collapse from hurting their jurisdictions","date":"October 4, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Local authorities in mainland China are taking a hard look at the property projects undertaken by China Evergrande Group, as they ring fence their jurisdictions and communities from a possible collapse in the world\u2019s most indebted developer with US$300 billion of liabilities.At the Yunpu Street area in the Guangdong\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":9604,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/claire-rayner-calls-for-proper-paternity-leave-archive-1-april-1996\/","url_meta":{"origin":7824,"position":1},"title":"Claire Rayner calls for proper paternity leave: archive, 1 April 1996","date":"April 1, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"\r 1 April 1996: We want prolonged, paid paternity leave, Claire Rayner says, and we want it now!On Friday, the EU Council of Ministers endorsed the provision of three months\u2019 unpaid leave for parents, bringing into line the wildly variable parental leave provision throughout Europe. 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