California Paid Family Leave Evidence
01/12/2011
Eileen Applebaum and Ruth Milkman. UCLA/City University of New York (CUNY) and the Center for Economic and Policy Research. January 12, 2011.
“Leaves That Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences with Paid Family Leave in California" is a collaborative study that shows California's paid family leave law has had a plethora of benefits, while the side effects warned of by big business have been proven false. Multiple employers were interviewed for the study, and the vast majority of them found that the program had either neutral or positive effects on turnover, productivity, profitability and worker morale.
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08/01/2004
Ruth Milkman and Eileen Appelbaum. The State of California Labor. August 2004.
This study looks at paid family leave in California a mere two years after passage of the policy. They find that white collar and unionized workplaces are more likely to offer family leave time beyond that required by law. Larger firms are also more likely to offer extensive family leave. In the previous year, only 6.3 percent of employers reported that their workers took maternity or other family or medical leave.
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