Connecticut’s Paid Leave Authority has registered 108,911 businesses and collected more than $102 million in first-quarter contributions, Gov. Ned Lamont announced Monday, exceeding official expectations on both counts.
The program which will administer the expanded paid leave benefits for qualifying workers signed into law by the governor in June 2019 had signed up about 87,000 companies midway through April and was aiming to boost that number to around 104,000 through stepped up outreach efforts. Actuarial projections initially put first-quarter contributions at $67 million.
“We are very pleased with the first-quarter results,” Connecticut Paid Leave Authority CEO Andrea Barton Reeves said. “The paid leave program has been fully developed during the pandemic, when many of Connecticut’s businesses were struggling just to survive. Business cooperation with this new process has been extraordinary and workers across Connecticut who will be eligible for paid leave next y
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House Minority Leader VIncent Candelora, R-North Branford, has been criticizing the state’s new quasi-public family leave authority for months over delays in setting up a payroll deduction system to fund such paid leaves starting next year. But now he’s raising a new issue the authority’s award of a no-bid contract to a Democratic political operative.
Here s How Much Parental Leave You Get in Every U.S. State
By Nicole Johnson, Stacker News
On 3/2/21 at 6:30 PM EST
The United States falls behind when it comes to parental and family leave laws. It is the only industrialized nation in the world among 42 countries analyzed by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development that does not have any federally mandated paid parental leave policy. Several countries do offer extensive parental leave, such as Sweden, that offers robust parental leave with parents sharing 480 days of paid parental leave per child, at 80 percent of the stay-at-home parent s salary.
The COVID-19 pandemic has further demonstrated the need for the United States to update its parental leave policies on both the federal and state levels. While subpar laws surrounding family and parental leave makes things difficult for parents across the country, many state legislatures have introduced bills that will allow for some type of paid parental leave in