Meta used AI to tag workers who took leave to be laid off, lawsuit claims

Lawsuit filed by dozens of employees says people who took maternity or disability leave were disproportionately selected for layoffs…

 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jul/14/meta-ai-mass-layoffs-lawsuit

 

Biden paid family leave plan aims to bring US into line with global peers

…If enacted, Biden's proposal would help close a safety net gap that has made the US an outlier among wealthy nations. According to Vicki Shabo, a paid leave expert at the New America thinktank, the US is the only high-wealth country without guaranteed paid maternity leave. It is also one of five without required paid parental leave for fathers or non-birth parents and one of just two without a paid sick leave guarantee...

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/may/03/biden-paid-family-leave-plan

82% of Americans want paid maternity leave – making it as popular as chocolate

The United States is the only wealthy nation that doesn't guarantee paid leave to mothers after they give birth or adopt a child...

https://theconversation.com/82-of-americans-want-paid-maternity-leave-making-it-as-popular-as-chocolate-159897

Americans want paid parental leave. The Rubio-Ivanka plan is a sorry attempt - Vox

Republicans messed up their chance to score an easy political victory. ....
https://www.vox.com/2018/8/6/17648462/rubio-ivanka-republican-paid-leave

Ivanka Trump-Backed Family Leave Plan Would Ask New Parents to Pick Between Retirement or Maternity Leave - Newsweek

"This is a way for Senator Rubio and the Republican party to get credit for caring about women and families without truly investing in a way to address a major problem," said Andrea Flynn, a fellow at The Roosevelt Institute. ....
https://www.newsweek.com/ivanka-trump-family-leave-maternity-retirement-1056970

The world’s richest countries guarantee mothers more than a year of paid maternity leave. The U.S. guarantees them nothing. -- The Washington Post: Analysis

Our maternity leave policy is bad for moms, bad for kids and bad for the economy. ....
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/02/05/the-worlds-richest-countries-guarantee-mothers-more-than-a-year-of-paid-maternity-leave-the-u-s-guarantees-them-nothing/

Ivanka 'paid leave' plan steals money from Social Security then forces parents to postpone retirement -- Raw Story

A childcare plan being discussed by Ivanka Trump and Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) would require parents to use their Social Security for maternity leave and then put off retirement in the future. ....

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/02/ivanka-paid-leave-plan-steals-money-social-security-forces-parents-postpone-retirement/

On Your Mark, Give Birth, Go Back To Work

On her first day back at work after giving birth, Tricia Olson drank copious amounts of coffee, stuffed tissues in her pocket, and tried not to cry. After all, her son Gus was just 3 weeks old. Olson, 32, works for a small towing company and U-Haul franchise in Rock Springs, Wyo., and she could not afford to be away from work any longer.

"The house bill's not going to pay itself," she says, her voice breaking in an audio diary she kept as part of a series on the challenges facing working parents airing on NPR's All Things Considered. 

Olson is one of just four employees she says are "like family," and like many U.S. workers, she has no paid leave at all: not for vacation, not if she gets sick, and certainly not for parental leave....
http://www.npr.org/2016/10/04/495839747/on-your-mark-give-birth-go-back-to-work?ft=nprml&f=1001

Despite Pro-Family Rhetoric, No Paid Leave For Makers Of Ivanka Trump’s Line

Ivanka Trump has vocally embraced pro-family corporate policies while stumping for her father on the campaign trail, but the company that designs her own clothing line offers no paid maternity leave.

A fashion designer for the G-III Apparel Group told the Washington Post in a piece published Monday that she received 12 weeks of unpaid leave when she became pregnant in 2015.

“It’s hard enough emotionally to come back to work right after having a baby,” the unnamed designer, who said she is a registered Republican and worked for G-III for four years, told the newspaper. “But to know you’re returning to a company that doesn’t value your choice to be a mother makes it harder.”...
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/no-paid-maternity-leave-ivanka-trump-clothing-line