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ISSUE 7
U.S. Practitioner’s Perspective: On Paid Leave Law
By April Smith
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, a branch of the Labor Department that has been assessing paid sick leave in the U.S . since 1979, approximately 20% of employees do not have access to some type of paid sick leave through their employer. But this is changing. History of Paid Leave Efforts in the U.S. Let’s backtrack for a moment and review how paid leave entered modern society. In 1910 President Within the United States, there are very few legal requirements for employers to provide paid time off and/or protect the jobs for those who may need to take leave.
William Taft proposed every worker needed to have two or three months of vacation each year. While this was not adopted by the U.S., Sweden and Germany soon followed and began requiring their employers to offer seven weeks paid leave to their citizens. In the 20 years after the introduction of paid leave, more than 30 countries required some form of compensation to workers for time off.
But not the U.S.A.
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