To be eligible for time off, one’s employer must have fifty or more employees and workers must have put in 1,250 hours in the previous year to be qualified. Less than forty percent of workers qualified because companies strategically identified workers as “part-time” and “independent contractors. Due to stigmas and stereotypes, men are less likely to use their benefits of paid leave which leads to undivided household responsibilites. The FMLA had no positive significant impact on motherhood success because majority of the women who qualified could not afford to lose wages. With limited time off from work, women and children were at high risk for health complications. Mothers neglected their psycological and emotional needs, their children lacked proper health care and they remained static in the workplace. Collectively, individuals, labor, civil right groups and women organizations advocated for paid leave and pushed for more specific protections in states such as California, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Still, that wasn’t enough for everyone to be included. Low-income, minority and young women were least likely to be aware of such essential
To be eligible for time off, one’s employer must have fifty or more employees and workers must have put in 1,250 hours in the previous year to be qualified. Less than forty percent of workers qualified because companies strategically identified workers as “part-time” and “independent contractors. Due to stigmas and stereotypes, men are less likely to use their benefits of paid leave which leads to undivided household responsibilites. The FMLA had no positive significant impact on motherhood success because majority of the women who qualified could not afford to lose wages. With limited time off from work, women and children were at high risk for health complications. Mothers neglected their psycological and emotional needs, their children lacked proper health care and they remained static in the workplace. Collectively, individuals, labor, civil right groups and women organizations advocated for paid leave and pushed for more specific protections in states such as California, New Jersey and Rhode Island. Still, that wasn’t enough for everyone to be included. Low-income, minority and young women were least likely to be aware of such essential