Perspective
Feb. 6, 2013
Time to update family medical leave in California
We must extend the law to cover additional family members, broaden the law's reach to protect more workers, and ensure access to paid leave nationwide. By Sharon Terman
Sally, a 74-year-old woman and longtime employee of a large retail company, recently asked a simple question: could she take time off - without risk of getting fired - to care for her twin sister, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer? Sally is the only family member available to tend to her dying sister. Their parents are deceased, her sister is widowed, and her only child lives out of state. Regrettably, the answer was no: siblings are not cov...
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