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October 16, 2007

Get Back to Work, Slacker

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If you are the primary caregiver for an ailing brother, sister, granddaughter, grandson, or your pesky in-laws, the guv basically says, Who Cares?

Arnold has vetoed two bills that would have expanded the Family Leave Act, which allows employees of medium to large companies to take 12 weeks of unpaid leave or 6 weeks of paid leave to bond with babies, take care of sick spouses, domestic partners, children, or parents. Adding extended family to the Act was "too confusing" for the guv.

While some expansion of existing law may have merit, these laws in combination are too expansive and also fail to recognize the need for reforms to current law.

Family leave advocates are, of course, pretty upset. They expected Schwarzenegger to pass at least one of the two expansion bills.

Read more about it here.


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