{"id":66541,"date":"2019-01-16T19:06:24","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T03:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/?p=66541"},"modified":"2020-06-23T10:24:53","modified_gmt":"2020-06-23T17:24:53","slug":"se-analiza-la-propuesta-de-licencia-familiar-remunerada-de-newsom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/calmatters.org\/_es\/economy\/2019\/01\/newsom-paid-family-leave-proposal-analyzed\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00bfEsa propuesta de Newsom de una licencia familiar remunerada de seis meses? Es atrevido, pero menos de lo que parece."},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t\n\t\t
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Californians who like the idea of getting more paid time off work to care for a new baby may find good news and bad news in the details of Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s proposed budget.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n\t\t\n

Californians who like the idea of getting more paid time off work to care for a new baby may find good news and bad news in the details of Gov. Gavin Newsom\u2019s proposed budget.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The bad news: The proposal is not quite as generous as it initially seemed. It doesn\u2019t call for each worker<\/em> to get six months of paid leave, as early news coverage implied. Instead, it calls for each baby<\/em> to get up to six months of care from a family member, dividing the time between two adults each taking a paid leave of two to four months.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The good news: That\u2019s still more than the six weeks of partially-paid family leave most workers get under current state law. And as a more modest increase, the plan may be more likely to win approval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not that it will be easy. The proposal foreshadows a pitched battle between labor unions and business interests, both powerful forces in the state Capitol. It\u2019s an expensive proposition\u2014Newsom hasn\u2019t even released an estimate yet\u2014and the plan to pay for it is still in formation. One option is an increased payroll tax, which would mean taking more deductions from most workers\u2019 paychecks. Even though Democrats hold more than a supermajority in the state Legislature, support for a new tax is not certain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But if successful, a law giving all families six months to bond with a new baby would reinstate California as the nation\u2019s vanguard of progressive family policy, a position that has slipped in recent years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

California was the first state in the country to embrace paid family leave when, in 2002, then-Gov. Gray Davis signed the law giving most workers six weeks of partial pay to care for a new baby or sick family member. It now provides low-income workers 70 percent of their wages while on family leave and other workers 60 percent of their pay\u2014funded by a 0.9 percent tax taken out of most paychecks. In addition, women who give birth get an additional six weeks of disability pay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in the last few years, a handful of blue states have gone further. New York now gives 10 weeks of paid family leave, and is supposed to increase it to 12 weeks in two years. Massachusetts and Washington passed laws giving 12 weeks of paid family leave, set to go into effect in 2020 and 2021, respectively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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