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The impact of unpaid family & medical leave in Oklahoma – KFOR

The impact of unpaid family & medical leave in Oklahoma – KFOR

“Nearly 1.5 million Oklahoma workers don’t have paid family and medical leave through their jobs. That means 74% of working people in the state, if they’re welcoming a new child or have to take time off work for medical appointments for themselves or their loved ones, are put in the impossible situation of having to choose between their families, their health and their paycheck.”

The impact of unpaid family & medical leave in Oklahoma – KFOR

The ‘rogue’ Trump-appointed judge with abortion pill’s future in his hands – The Guardian

“A decision to ban mifepristone nationwide would be devastating,” said Shaina Goodman, director for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families. “This is a very deliberate, coordinated strategy by the anti-abortion movement to attack abortion every which way they can, and they’ve found in Kacsmaryk a judge who has a track record of making decisions based not on law or evidence, but on partisan ideology.”

The impact of unpaid family & medical leave in Oklahoma – KFOR

Paid Parental Leave?/ Response to State of Union – WBAI – 99.5 FM

“It’s been 30 yrs since the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) making it a federal law that 12 weeks of Unpaid Family Leave was due any worker who met certain requirements, was signed into law by Bill Clinton; it was supposed to be “just the beginning” of support for families who needed time off for the birth of a child or to take care of sick relatives”