Employee Leave
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Paid Sick Days for Public Health Emergencies and Personal and Family Care Act [S.3415]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Expands the availability of paid sick time by requiring employers with at least one employee to provide a minimum amount of accrued paid sick time per work week and additional paid sick time in the event of a public-health emergency such as the coronavirus (i.e., the virus that causes COVID-19).Specifically, the bill requires employers to grant at least 1 hour of accrued paid sick time to each employee for every 30 hours worked, up to a minimum of 56 hours, or 7 days, of paid sick time per year. Accrued paid sick time may be used for, among other
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VA Family Leave Act of 2020 [HB-6036]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Veterans ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
Provides employees of the Veterans Health Administration with the same family and medical leave benefits as other federal employees, beginning in FY2021.
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VAlue FAAmily Act [HB-5993]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Veterans ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Human Services ]
Provides employees of the Federal Aviation Administration, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), and the Veterans Health Administration with the same family and medical leave benefits as other federal employees, beginning in FY2021. The bill also specifies that TSA screeners are eligible to receive family and medical leave benefits beginning in FY2021.
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Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act of 2020 [S.3358]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Human Rights ]
Modifies various employment, leave, and pension rules with respect to part-time workers. Specifically, the bill removes the requirement that employees work a minimum number of hours during the preceding 12-month period before becoming eligible for family and medical leave.The bill also sets the maximum length of service on which employers may condition the eligibility of part-time employees for a qualified pension plan (e.g., 401(k) retirement plan). Except as required by an applicable collective bargaining agreement, such service requirement may
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Part-Time Worker Bill of Rights Act of 2020 [HB-5991]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Human Rights ]
Modifies various employment, leave, and pension rules with respect to part-time workers. Specifically, the bill removes the requirement that employees work a minimum number of hours during the preceding 12-month period before becoming eligible for family and medical leave.The bill also sets the maximum length of service on which employers may condition the eligibility of part-time employees for a qualified pension plan (e.g., 401(k) retirement plan). Except as required by an applicable collective bargaining agreement, such service requirement may
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Federal Employee Parental Leave Technical Correction Act [HB-5885]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Expands certain paid parental leave benefits to include specified public sector employees, including employees of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration, the Executive Office of the President and the White House, and the District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service.
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Family Leave for Parental Involvement in Education Act [HB-5838]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Provides eligible employees to up to 48 hours of additional annual family and medical leave to attend activities related to a school or community organization attended by an employee's child or grandchild. Employees may use not more than 8 hours of such leave per 30-day period and must notify employers in advance of using such leave. This leave also is available to federal employees.Additionally, employers generally may require employees to substitute accrued vacation, personal, family, medical, or sick leave for leave available under this bill.
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Schedules That Work Act [S.3256]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
A bill to permit employees to require changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes.
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Judicial Branch Senior Executive Leave Efficiency and Modernization Act of 2020 [HB-5735]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
Allows certain senior level employees within the judicial branch to accumulate up to 90 days of unused annual leave for use in succeeding years. Under current law, such employees may accumulate only up to 30 days.
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Working Families Flexibility Act of 2020 [HB-5656]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
To amend the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 to provide compensatory time for employees in the private sector.
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Federal Employee Parental Leave Technical Correction Act [S.3104]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Expands certain paid parental leave benefits to include specified public sector employees, including employees of the Federal Aviation Administration and the Transportation Security Administration, the Executive Office of the President and the White House, and the District of Columbia Courts and Public Defender Service.
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FAA and TSA Family and Medical Leave Act [S.3079]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Revises the personnel management system of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide FAA employees, including Transportation Security Administration employees, the same family and medical leave benefits as other federal employees.
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Family Medical Leave Modernization Act [S.3071]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Veterans ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to expand the number of individuals who are permitted to take leave under that Act. The bill grants leave to private sector and federal employees to care for a domestic partner and any individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with such employees is the equivalent of a family relationship if (1) such individual has a serious health condition, or (2) there is a qualifying exigency due to such employees' active duty in the Armed Forces. The bill entitles an employee who is a domestic
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Family Medical Leave Modernization Act [HB-5456]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Veterans ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Amends the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 to expand the number of individuals who are permitted to take leave under that Act. The bill grants leave to private sector and federal employees to care for a domestic partner and any individual related by blood or affinity whose close association with such employees is the equivalent of a family relationship if (1) such individual has a serious health condition, or (2) there is a qualifying exigency due to such employees' active duty in the Armed Forces. The bill entitles an employee who is a domestic
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FAA Family and Medical Leave Act [HB-5431]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Revises the personnel management system of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to provide FAA employees the same family and medical leave benefits as other federal employees.
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Do Your Job Act of 2019 [HB-4090]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Eliminates the use of official time by federal employees. Official time is paid time off from assigned duties to perform labor-management relations activities.
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Schedules That Work Act [HB-5004]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
To permit employees to request changes to their work schedules without fear of retaliation and to ensure that employers consider these requests, and to require employers to provide more predictable and stable schedules for employees in certain occupations with evidence of unpredictable and unstable scheduling practices that negatively affect employees, and for other purposes.
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Paid Family Leave Pilot Extension Act [HB-4964]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Small Business ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Extends through 2022 the tax credit for employers who provide employees with paid family and medical leave. The bill also requires the Government Accountability Office to (1) examine the effectiveness of the tax credit for paid family and medical leave, (2) recommend ways to modify or enhance the tax credit to further promote access to paid family and medical leave for qualifying employees, and (3) suggest alternative policies that federal and state governments could implement to increase access to paid family and medical leave.
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Airline Accountability Act [S.2678]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Limits the participation of air carriers with labor law violations in the City Pair Program, which provides discounted air passenger transportation services to federal government travelers for work. Specifically, the General Services Administration (GSA) must require an air carrier, as a condition of eligibility for the program, to disclose to the Department of Labor annually labor violations by the carrier or the carrier's subcontractors. Labor must submit to the GSA a list of air carriers that shall be ineligible for participation based on serious,
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A resolution instructing the managers on the part of the Senate on the bill S. 1790 (116th Congress) to insist upon the members of the conference to consider potential commonsense solutions regarding family and medical leave, including voluntary compensatory time programs and incentives through the tax code. [SR-336]
[Defense ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Taxes ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
[Military ]
This resolution instructs Senate conferees on the conference committee for S. 1790 (National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020) to insist that members of the conference consider potential commonsense solutions regarding family and medical leave, including voluntary compensatory time programs and incentives through the tax code.