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The Paid Family & Medical Leave Task Force presented its recommendations to lawmakers on Monday.

When New Mexicans face the life circumstances that make it impossible for them to work, there’s no guarantee that their boss will keep paying them or that they can keep their job. A proposal to change that — which lawmakers have been talking about for decades — will return in January in the upcoming legislative session in Santa Fe.

Legislation to be heard in January would allow workers to take up to 12 weeks of leave per year and still receive part of their income

Measure would allow workers to take leave and keep their jobs

The United States is the only wealthy country globally that does not offer a guaranteed paid family leave. However, 11 states, including California and New York, have passed paid family leave legislation. New Mexico could follow suit during the next legislative session in January. Reporter Taylor Velazquez has more about the potential impacts for both employers and employees.

A bill likely to come before the New Mexico Legislature next session will be another run at passing a state-run Paid Family and Medical Leave program into law but in 2023, the program will have some concessions to businesses as well as new expansions. Tracy McDaniel, policy advocate for Southwest Women’s Law Center, said a […]

After Tuskegee University veterinary students took photos with various animals, the images were shared thousands of times on social media.

A memorial that is part of a longer strategy to introduce a bill in next year’s legislature for paid family and medical leave passed 7-2 largely along party lines in the House Labor, Veterans and Military Affairs Committee. House Memorial 3, sponsored by state House Rep. Linda Serrato, D-Santa Fe, asks for a $160,000 appropriation […]

A poll taken this fall shows that New Mexican voters are in favor of a state-supported paid family and medical leave program. A group of Democratic representatives, led by state Rep. Christine Chandler of Los Alamos, have sponsored a bill to establish such a program in the last few legislative sessions but the bills failed […]

The Shawnee News-Star A Pottawatomie County jury has recommended a Shawnee man convicted in a lewd acts case following a trial last week should serve 130 years in prison; a formal sentencing date has been scheduled May 3. Aaron Charles Buck, 50, was originally charged in 2019 and stood trial last week on four felony counts of lewd or indecent acts to a child under age 16. The trial, held before Associate District Judge Tracy McDaniel, ended with the jury deciding guilty verdicts on Counts 1, 2 ...