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Access to paid leave is a health and equity imperative
On 15 April 2024, after a public consultation that received over 100 000 comments, the US Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) issued final regulations detailing employers’ obligation to provide reasonable accommodation to pregnant workers.1 These new regulations expand access to unpaid time off as a reasonable accommodation during pregnancy, for pregnancy termination, or after childbirth. A coalition of attorneys general from 17 states challenged this ruling on 25 April, focusing on provisions for pregnancy termination.2 Whether these new regulations are implemented or over-ruled by the courts will determine whether millions of pregnant and postpartum workers will get access to unpaid leave.
For readers from many countries, this may be surprising. The US is one of the few countries that has no national guarantee of paid maternal leave (the others being Papua New Guinea and five small Pacific island states).3 Moreo
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Unlike almost three-quarters of high-income countries, the U.S. does not prohibit or limit the detention of accompanied asylum-seeking children, a study released Wednesday finds.
The study by the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health s WORLD Policy Analysis Center looked specifically at laws affecting asylum-seeking children – youths seeking protection from human rights violations in their home country – and migrant children – youths leaving their country for a variety of reasons, such as economic opportunities, education or to join family.
According to the study s findings, the U.S. does not have legislation protecting accompanied migrant children.
“The U.S. lags behind when it comes to protecting the most fundamental rights of migrant children,” said Dr. Jody Heymann, director of WORLD and a professor at UCLA. Adopting legal protections that provide for the types of effective alternatives to detention modeled elsewhere is critical to bringing the U.S
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