About half the states allow citizens to place proposed laws or constitutional amendments on the ballot through initiative ...

Hannah Jones, from Philadelphia, believes that paid medical leave has played a crucial role in her survival after being ...

Allowing workers to use their paid sick leave to take time off for immigration proceedings is one of the ways Washington state lawmakers are trying to support immigrants facing tougher ...

Separately, more states and cities also are requiring paid sick time, which helps people deal with shorter-term illnesses ...

The bill would allow workers to use paid sick leave to prepare or participate in immigration proceedings for themselves or a ...

The Women's Tennis Association (WTA) is to provide up to 12 months of paid maternity leave to players who become pregnant. The package is financed by the association's global partner, Saudi Arabia ...

In a first for major corporate houses, engineering and construction industry, Larsen & Toubro chairman S N Subrahmanyan introduced a one-day paid menstrual leave every month for their women ...

In 2018, a pair of voter initiatives that were headed to the ballot sought to expand paid sick leave and raise the minimum wage in Michigan. But Republican lawmakers adopted the proposals to ...

Michigan lawmakers scrambled to preempt court-ordered changes to the state's sick leave and minimum wage policies ahead of a midnight Friday deadline House Bill 4002 passed the Michigan Senate 26 ...

The State House has passed a bill that allows workers to use paid sick leave to attend or prepare for immigration proceedings. House Bill 1875 passed along party lines on Thursday with a 58-39 ...

LB 698, proposed by State Sen. Paul Strommen of Sidney, would raise the minimum number of employees a business must have to be obligated to provide paid sick leave from one to at least 11 ...