Last year, the conservative American Enterprise Institute released a joint report with the more progressive Brookings Institution titled "Paid Family and Medical Leave: An Issue Whose Time Has Come." While the authors disagree among themselves about the specifics of a federal program, they "Unanimously agreed that some form of paid parental leave should be offered to help workers at the time of birth, adoption, or fostering of a child."
While said to be necessary to bring the United States into alignment with other industrialized countries - all of which have government-mandated paid leave - in reality, such a policy here would simply mimic a policy that has already backfired elsewhere, including four U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Trade-offs for paid leave policies vary depending on policy specifics, but they include discrimination against workers of childbearing age and, as such, may favor older workers, resulting in fewer leadership roles, higher unemployment, and lesser pay for women.
Paid leave advocates often argue that paid family leave and other social policies will reduce gender inequality in the workplace.
The government offers 52 weeks of paid leave and other generous family-friendly benefits.
The absence of nationally-mandated paid leave in the United States doesn't mean that American women don't get paid leave, however.
As Brown Calder writes, "Over the past 50 years, the private sector has substantially increased paid leave offerings; this suggests the private market responds to employee demands. At the same time, mothers' labor-force engagement increased without government intervention." Indeed, over the past several years, without the government mandating or paying for paid parental leave in the United States, somewhere between 45%-63% of workers reported they already had access to paid leave, according to Brown Calder's analysis.
https://spectator.org/government-mandated-paid-leave-proves-ineffective/
While said to be necessary to bring the United States into alignment with other industrialized countries - all of which have government-mandated paid leave - in reality, such a policy here would simply mimic a policy that has already backfired elsewhere, including four U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
Trade-offs for paid leave policies vary depending on policy specifics, but they include discrimination against workers of childbearing age and, as such, may favor older workers, resulting in fewer leadership roles, higher unemployment, and lesser pay for women.
Paid leave advocates often argue that paid family leave and other social policies will reduce gender inequality in the workplace.
The government offers 52 weeks of paid leave and other generous family-friendly benefits.
The absence of nationally-mandated paid leave in the United States doesn't mean that American women don't get paid leave, however.
As Brown Calder writes, "Over the past 50 years, the private sector has substantially increased paid leave offerings; this suggests the private market responds to employee demands. At the same time, mothers' labor-force engagement increased without government intervention." Indeed, over the past several years, without the government mandating or paying for paid parental leave in the United States, somewhere between 45%-63% of workers reported they already had access to paid leave, according to Brown Calder's analysis.
https://spectator.org/government-mandated-paid-leave-proves-ineffective/
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