A 74-year-old man is blocking Congress from providing American workers with paid family and medical leave, leaving the United States as the only industrialized nation without such a mandate.
This is the man who tanked paid leave.
As HuffPost reported, Manchin privately expressed concern about the cost of offering paid leave, as well as the potential for fraud.
Just 23% of private sector workers have access to paid family leave provided by their employer and 42% have access to medical leave.
Universal paid leave would allow workers to take time off for a new child, recovery from an illness, taking care of a seriously ill family member or issues arising from a loved one’s military deployment.
Unless Biden is able to address paid leave in some other form, former President Donald Trump will have made more progress on the issue.
In 2019, he signed the Federal Employee Paid Leave Act, giving an estimated 2 million federal employees access to 12 weeks of paid parental leave. »
