Family and Medical Leave Evidence

A Workable Balance: Report to Congress on Family and Medical Leave Policies

05/19/2011

Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division. February 5, 2003.

“A Workable Balance: Report to Congress on Family and Medical Leave Policies” marks the tenth anniversary of the FMLA’s passage. The DoL found that the FMLA covered about two-thirds of American workplaces (66.1 percent), while well over half of the labor force is covered by the law (54.9 percent).

Leaves That Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences with Paid Family Leave in California

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.

National Partnership for Women & Families: Paid Leave Key Paid Family Leave/Paid Family and Medical Leave Research

01/01/2011

The National Partnership for Women & Families. 2011.

A comprehensive guide to all the latest paid family leave research.

New Jersey Employers’ Experiences Managing Employee Leaves and Turnover

01/01/2006

Eileen Applebaum and Ruth Milkman. Center for Women and Work. 2006.

“New Jersey Employers’ Experiences Managing Employee Leaves and Turnover” utilizes interviews with thousands of New Jersey employers about their current leave policies and their adherence to the national Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA). It found that New Jersey employers reported little abuse of FMLA and that many small employers, who aren’t covered by that law, voluntarily adhered to it anyway.

Paid Family Leave In California: New Research Findings (2004)

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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