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Paid family leave becoming hot political topic

Employers, HR professionals, and certainly workers have been talking about paid family leave for years, but seldom has the concept had such a public hearing.

By Scott Wooldridge | Updated on November 09, 2015
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In the Oct. 13 Democratic presidential debate, the party’s front-runner, Hillary Clinton, was interrupted with applause only once during her opening statement, when she said, “I believe in equal pay for equal work for women, but I also believe it’s about time we had paid family leave for American families and join the rest of the world.”

And so an issue that has slowly been growing in importance joined foreign policy, immigration, taxes, and climate change as a top issue for the 2016 presidential campaign. Employers, HR professionals, and certainly workers have been talking about paid family leave for years, but seldom has the concept had such a public hearing.

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