LIT 1 Business Law 310.1.5-02,11,13 According to the Family Medical Leave Act of 1993, an employee can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave. The employee can take this leave to take care of medical, personal, or military issues. This bill was signed by President Bill Clinton in February 1993. In order to qualify under the FMLA, the employee must work for a company with 75 or more employees. The employee must also have worked for at least 12 months and 1250 hours during the 12 months.
Berries, Roots In the poem “Grandmother”, by Douglas Nepinak, the poet discusses the loneliness and struggle of a woman who does not know English which creates a barrier in communicating with her family. The change I had to overcome was difficult but it had to be conquered; moving to a new house, which meant having to wake up earlier than I needed to get to school in time. Change can at times be hard for people to live with and eventually overcome. People often fear change in their lives because they have a sense of control and comfort; a sort of safety net on which they can rely on. Change comes with certain adjustments, and everyone deals with these adjustments differently; therefore, ultimately, the poet suggests that if these adjustments are not met with reality at the right time, it can be costly to everyone involved.
Income has always been a concern for families and losing one income can be devastating to a family, and on the other hand there is the single mother that really does not have a choice, but to go to work and support her child. The loss of income could mean that the family cannot meet their basic needs such as housing, food, clothing and additional worries of saving for the future such as college expenses and retirement. Families might also have concerns about future employment if mom decides to leave the current workforce. The work force seems to be constantly changing; consequently, making future employment harder to come by when mom is ready or a need arises to return to work. Some would argue that the cost of child care is too great and the income generated by the working mom is not worth the cost or the time lost with the child.
I assume that she wants a divorce from her husband but because of the role that society has placed on her, but she is unable to get one because she is very dependent on him. It sounds to me that she is jealous of her male friend who is looking for another wife. It was him and his situation that she was thinking of that brought her to the conclusion that she herself wants a wife. Her situation leads me to believe that during this time in history women were not meant to show signs of aggression, jealousy, or anger because it was a mans world. In Brady’s eyes a wife is a basically a slave at home who cannot have a life of her own.
In an article written by David Crary for the Huffington Post, “at least 178 countries have national laws guaranteeing paid leave for new mothers, while the handful of exceptions include the U.S., Swaziland and Papua New Guinea. More than 50 nations, including most Western countries, also guarantee paid leave for new fathers.” The United States Department of Labor reports that under the Family and Medical Leave Act that “employees are eligible for up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave per year” and that, “Employees are eligible for leave if they have worked for their employer at least 12 months, at least 1,250 hours over the past 12 months, and work at a location where the company employs 50 or more employees within 75 miles. Whether an employee has worked the minimum 1,250 hours of service is determined according to FLSA principles for determining compensable hours or
“It took the United States until 1993 to mandate unpaid leave for new parents and other family and medical reasons. Joan Williams, a law professor at the University of California, Hastings, who specializes in work and family issuers, says that unpaid leave has helped, because it “protects hourly workers from being fired when they have a baby or need to care for a child or elder with a serious health condition.” But that doesn’t change the fact that “we need paid leave,” she says.”(Liebelson, 2014) The Effects of Maternity Leave The choices a mother has to consider when electing the option to have a child can be a cumbersome task. By the mother being employed puts a strain not only on her but the employer whom she is working for to replace someone to fulfill her duties. The choice of do I work while I am pregnant or after I have the baby do I return to work? The sense of guilt and of cheating your child you feel when having to work and not be home full time during the first year of their life.
In other cases, when family members became ill, there was a need for someone to take care of them. Many workplace policies did not accommodate workers on these issues and made employees decide between their family and their jobs. On February 5, 1993, President Clinton signed this, the first piece of legislation under his administration, into law. Under the Family Medical Leave Act, eligible employees can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave in a 12
Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 helped women out a lot concerning wages and titles in their careers. “Employers could refuse to offer training, advancement, or partnership to the women they employed” (“Employment”). “Employers could also lawfully refuse to consider hiring a woman for a position, and if she was hired, her employer could provide her with different benefits than that of a man in the same position” (“Employment”). This type of discrimination led to many problems within families because there was nothing a woman could do about how much
Henrik Ibsen depicts how the conscious and subconscious motives and desires are obtained. Kristine Linde is a woman who has had to give up her dreams due to circumstances beyond her control. She was once in love but because her mother “was bedridden and helpless”and she “had to provide for two younger brothers”(Ibsen, 2011, p. 556) she was forced to marry for convenience of the situation. We can tell this has made her look at life in a more realistic and wise view than that of her friend Mrs Nora Helmer the main character. Mrs Linde has had to work hard and was not afforded love and children which she longed to have.
Subsection 27(2)(a) stipulates that an employee is entitled to three days family responsibility leave during each cycle of twelve months of employment when his or her child is born. This means that if Mr. Pritchard chooses to take his three days paid leave for the birth of his child, he in unable to take any further family leave for that year Global International may request that Mr. Pritchard provides reasonable proof of his child’s birth before he is paid for his subsequent leave. Mr. Pritchard would therefore have to provide global international with a copy of the new born’s birth certificate. Recommendations Global international