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    Obama Proposes Paid Family Leave for Feds[/quote]
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    By Kellie Lunney
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    President Obama is directing agencies to advance federal employees up to six weeks of paid sick leave to care for a new child or ill family members.
    Obama on Thursday signed a presidential memorandum expanding the current unpaid family leave benefit – something feds and advocates of government workers have been urging for years. The memo “will allow mothers the opportunity to recuperate after child birth, even if they have not accrued enough sick leave. It will also allow spouses and partners to care for mothers during their recuperation periods and will allow both parents to attend proceedings relating to the adoption of a child,” stated a White House fact sheet.

    Obama also is proposing congressional legislation that would give federal workers six weeks of paid administrative leave for the birth, adoption or foster placement of a child. In addition, the bill would allow parents to use sick days to care for a healthy child after birth or adoption. If passed, it would make paid family leave for feds law.

    Between the memo and the proposed legislation, Obama is advocating for 12 weeks total of paid leave for federal workers from two different leave banks – sick and administrative. Federal workers accrue sick leave as a benefit; administrative leave is an excused absence from work. The 1993 Family and Medical Leave Act provides up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave to most government and private sector workers for the birth or adoption of a child, or to care for seriously ill family members. Federal employees who give birth or adopt can tap their accrued sick and annual leave to avoid three months without a paycheck, but many bristle at having to use hard-earned leave when paid parental leave is becoming more prevalent in the private sector.

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    Default Re: Obama Proposes Paid Family Leave for Feds

    Where in the Private sector?



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    Quote Originally Posted by James48843 View Post
    What do you think about this?
    it makes me want to get pregnant.

    you mean i could get laid and 6 weeks off work? sign me up.
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    Quote Originally Posted by nnuut View Post
    Where in the Private sector?
    Where?

    Every other nation on the face of the planet, except for four nations. United States does not.

    Only Lesotho, Swaziland and Papua New Guinea are the only other countries that do not


    It's time to just join the rest of the world in recognizing that families have value to society.

    Those are real "family values".

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    Quote Originally Posted by James48843 View Post

    It's time to just join the rest of the world in recognizing that families have value to society.

    Those are real "family values".
    Um, I can think of a different choice for you James....YOU could leave and join the rest of the world.:toung:
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    Hold on a second, I get paid to knock my wife up?

    There is no downside to this unless you're the one who has to pay...
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    You forgot Sweden, James (480 days, 420 paid at 80%); and you can't be fired because of it. A whole bunch of people at the coffee shop with babies.

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    families make babies which are potential future taxpayers. let's do a cost-benefit analysis on this idea...

    more taxpayers is a good thing because somebody has to labor for income which can be taxed and redistributed to non-taxpayers for making babies. so it's like a perpetual motion sex machine. but it only works if the babies grow up and work. of course, the potential exists that a life that begins with a subsidy and can live its whole on subsidy (free food, housing, healthcare, cash assistance, phone, and after hopefully 18 years of free development subsidized for sex to make more babies) could lead to a disincentive to work and pay taxes. i'm not sure if the return on investment would actully ever materialize. but sex is cool. in some parts of the country like nevada it is even legal to get paid for having sex. in the rest of the country it is not legal to get paid for having sex, but people do it anyways, some of them for free.

    basically, obama is proposing to be the nation's pimp and give girls a pittance for their baby factory services. hmmmmmm. alright, i think i am ok with that. get the man a purple hat with a feather in it, and a cane, those are cool. pimp barrack has a nice ring to it, and fits right in with the rest of the politician whores for money in washinton dc.

    will there also be corresponding benefits for the donor side side of the equation, it takes two to tango?
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    Quote Originally Posted by OBGibby View Post
    Surprisingly the ads on this page haven't changed yet based on burrocat's keywords in his latest post to more interesting pitches, only getting hospital related ads...
    patience, padawan, patience.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JTH View Post
    Hold on a second, I get paid to knock my wife up?
    look on the bright side, at least i'm not getting paid to knock your wife up.
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