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The Nation, check out our latest issue. Subscribe to Support Progressive Journalism The Nation is reader supported: Chip in $10 or more to help us continue to write about the issues that matter. Sign up for our Wine Club today. Did you know you can support The Nation by drinking wine? Wendy Chun-Hoon is one of the many fresh faces coming in to the federal government with the new Biden administration. She is the new director of the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor, but she spent her prior career fighting for economic justice in a variety of nonprofits. Before joining the administration she served as executive director of Family Values @ Work, an organization that advocates for paid leave policies at the county, city, and state level, which she helped found just as California became the first state to enact its own paid family leave program. When she realized that many of the paid leave policies she was fighting for could exclude her ....
Making the Case for Chosen Family in Paid Family and Medical Leave Policies February 16, 2021, 9:06 am In the past year, the coronavirus pandemic has revealed that U.S. workplaces and work-family policies are ill-equipped to support workers with illnesses or caregiving responsibilities. This policy gap has affected LGBTQ individuals, who often have less access to care from traditional family structures, in particular ways. The United States’ lack of any permanent, national paid leave policy makes it the sole outlier among industrialized countries and puts workers’ jobs, economic security, and health at risk. With the recent expiration of temporary COVID-19 emergency paid leave, 4 out of 5 workers have been left without access to paid family leave. As this concern becomes a prominent part of the national conversation, policymakers must act to create a permanent paid family and medical leave policy and ensure that it reflects diverse caregiving relationships in order to ....