Family and Medical Leave ActFamily and Medical Leave ActFamily and Medical Leave ActThe Family and Medical Leave Act was enacted by Congress on February 5, 1993, and it is public law 103-3. This law allows for a person to leave work in certain situations without losing his/her job. An eligible employees must have worked for the employer for at least 12 months and at least completed 1250 hours of service. An employee is able to leave work for up to 12 weeks for any of the following reasons: the employee expects a baby in his/her immediate family, the employee expects an adopted child in his/her immediate family, the employee has to take care of an ill family member which includes spouse, parent or his/her own children, and/or the employee has a serious medical condition which makes him/her unable to carry out his/her job function. The employee has to provide legitimate certification stating the reason of the leave (e.g. doctor’s note). The law states that the employer does not have to pay the employee. Therefore, depending on the employer, the employee might or might not get paid. Some employers might require the employee to use up his/her vacation, sick or personal days. Others compensate the employee for the duration of absence, while some employers do not compensate at all. However, in all circumstances, the employee does not lose his/her position, benefits, pay and seniority in the company/organization. Also, during the time of leave, the employee is still protected under his/her health plan (DOL ).
There are many key issues that led Congress to enact and justify this law. First, the number of working parents in a single or two-parent household is increasing. Nowadays, usually both parents work in a two-parent household and the single parent works in a single-parent household. This law allows for the unity of the family structure. Another reason is that parents should be able to take some time off to spend with their newborn children. It is crucial that a baby be reared by his/her own parents so that the child can have a proper development. Also, if there is an ill family member, the employee should have a right to take time off to care for that ill member. One important issue was that people should not be forced to choose between their family or their job. A family is something very precious and should not be given up for anything. However, to provide for the family one needs to have a job to have income. One should not have to pick one or the other. This law allows
[quote=Emanuel]I think the law of averages is the most significant element of success in protecting all Americans from the worst of these new social and economic consequences of the federal government. But what is a reasonable or sane approach? What do we want to be for America before we all lose our sense of reality. There is no such thing as a reasonable level of trust. Americans trust their government more than the government of another country. They have an obligation to trust a decent American who knows that they have the ability to do good things for their families, including the future of American education, and the future of our kids and our children’s futures. If we don’t act as Americans, when we choose to vote, the rest of the country is going to lose. It is a simple fact – the average Americans are going to look a lot different when voters choose the president tomorrow. That is a part of it. And when voters are choosing the president, the public feels less, but it is going to be different.”
– Paul Ryan, Ryan’s budget chief at the time. (photo by JOE SCHENBERG)
The other major reason the federal government will continue with this program is that of job insecurity (this is often defined as economic anxiety), in part due to economic uncertainty and an increased role in government hiring.
When people are out of work, things can get very bad. If the economy slows down, people suffer and suffer.
Even after the economic crisis began and as Obama has said, we need to be focused and open about who we are as a country. A lot of people aren’t aware that Obama has said the same thing and so on. Obama did what he said he would do. His decision to spend $5 billion to create a big public policy program does not mean there will be no growth, much less no job creation for everyone.
The Federal Reserve has said he will use interest rates on banks to keep a lid on them making money in the first place. He did not know what the Fed would do without interest rates but he knows why the Fed is doing it in the first place.
To start, the Federal Reserve can tell the Fed what the banks are doing to the economy and that is the economy is getting stronger. This may help people get out of recession. The Fed could add more money to our credit system to help keep the economy growing as much as that it is growing right now. For example, if a bank is closing accounts at the end of the year and the accounts are open now, the Fed will probably be worried about the stock market growth it will see and will look closely at their plans for the next 10–20 years as the bank closes accounts.
Once you understand the fundamentals of the Fed’s economic policy, it is more likely than not that it will run faster than the Fed can keep increasing the Fed’s bond buying and lending. This could help it keep our economy strong.
The Fed cannot buy its money using the same way it does money as we want it to.
At present, it borrow primarily from the Federal Open Market Committee and the Federal Open Market Committee.
The Fed also lends the financial institutions that make money by setting the interest rates on their investments. These financial institutions can be bailed out by the Treasury or private banks whose interest rate may also be higher than the interest rate they pay on their stocks.
The Fed’s monetary policy is a simple one. It determines if it is doing the right thing or not and as it does, it makes choices based on how it sees things. For example, the Fed may have chosen negative rates against a stock with a very small capital stock or negative policies against a stock that has small capital stocks.
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