March 24, 2021
About 200 companies signed a letter this week calling on Congress to pass permanent paid family and medical leave, calling it “one of the critical solutions to our nation’s economic recovery.”
At the beginning of the pandemic, right about this time last year, Congress did pass a law requiring many businesses to offer two weeks of paid sick leave and 12 weeks of paid family leave for COVID-related reasons. But it was temporary.
Let’s look at why businesses are interested in making government-sponsored family leave permanent.
One of the lines in the letter to Congress says: “In short: paid leave is good for business.”