reporter: it was then and there that molly decided to provide paid family leave to all 200 of her employees. the first person to take paid family leave to have a baby was my actually, my executive assistant. and i ve retained her and so many other crew members for far longer than they thought they would stay at an ice cream company because of paid family leave. is far from the norm. just 23% of u.s. workers get paid leave from their employers. just six states and d.c. guarantee it, and nevada, with kelsey daniels lives, isn t one of them. i don t have any paid parent parental leave at this point. reporter: daniels had a baby boy last month and is depleth her savings in order to stay home for 12 weeks, time she says she needs to heal. i do have a very physical job as a physical therapist. the quality of work i would provide to the families wouldn t be the same.