How to Use family leave in a Sentence

family leave

noun
  • One of the provisions that's not in the bill, that’s been dropped from the bill is paid family leave.
    ABC News, 31 Oct. 2021
  • Have the family leave at 7 a.m. and come back 12 hours later to a transformed pad.
    Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022
  • What the end of Roe v. Wade could mean in a nation without child care aid or family leave.
    Laura L. Davis, USA TODAY, 9 May 2022
  • Dahlberg knows that Tallulah, a 9-month-old mixed breed, barks when her family leaves the house.
    Hannah Fry, Los Angeles Times, 3 Sep. 2023
  • Many were not sick with the virus, but took family leave to deal with such things as child care needs and school closures during the pandemic.
    oregonlive, 3 June 2021
  • All too often, the family leaves the synagogue as well.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023
  • Here are a few tips to set up your new business for success during family leave.
    Stuf, Forbes, 1 July 2022
  • So Hardy set out to create the company's family leave plan.
    Emma Hinchliffe and paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 7 Apr. 2022
  • On the other hand, our family leaves doors of unoccupied rooms open, and having a room closed off with no one in it bothers me a bit.
    Nicholas Ivor Martin and Jacobina Martin, oregonlive, 17 June 2023
  • That same year, 62% of South Koreans that took family leave were women.
    Annalisa Merelli, Quartz, 14 Mar. 2023
  • But there's also money for child care, paid family leave.
    ABC News, 30 Jan. 2022
  • In recent years, Congress failed to pass both paid family leave and subsidized child-care.
    Kelsey Butler, BostonGlobe.com, 6 Jan. 2023
  • Ramthun said paid family leave would help prevent behavioral issues later on in a child's life that could lead to more crime.
    Corrinne Hess, Journal Sentinel, 24 July 2022
  • Paid family leave, however, was cut from the latest draft, which would mean the country would remain one of six in the world — and the only rich nation — without any form of it.
    New York Times, 29 Oct. 2021
  • Advocates have long blamed the country's lack of universal preschool and paid family leave.
    CBS News, 3 Jan. 2023
  • The transport worker union is demanding support in the form of police patrols and paid family leave.
    Michelle Shen, USA TODAY, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Democrats jettisoned paid family leave from their social spending plan to help reduce the cost.
    Bryan Schott, The Salt Lake Tribune, 28 Oct. 2021
  • However, the ability for all Americans to get family leave is at risk of getting stripped from the Senate version of the bill.
    Jen Fifield, The Arizona Republic, 20 Nov. 2021
  • DeLauro has been a longtime advocate for both the child tax credit and paid family leave.
    Annie Grayer, CNN, 26 Oct. 2021
  • Without any state laws that guarantee the right to paid sick and family leave, workers are granted it only by local laws.
    Chloe Berger, Fortune, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Many of the same political leaders who fought to end Roe v. Wade also oppose policies such as the child tax credit and paid family leave.
    Laura Goetz, STAT, 3 Mar. 2023
  • In Connecticut, you get paid family leave, paid sick leave, abortions are legal.
    CBS News, 5 May 2022
  • In the example of family leave, many top earners already get it from their employers.
    Noah Bierman, Los Angeles Times, 7 Oct. 2021
  • There is also an investment of two hundred and twenty-five billion dollars, in the next decade, to build a program that provides twelve weeks of parental and family leave.
    Amy Davidson Sorkin, The New Yorker, 2 May 2021
  • Meanwhile, Democrats can’t even get paid family leave or higher taxes for millionaires through the Senate.
    Matt Ford, The New Republic, 9 Nov. 2021
  • Perhaps paid family leave is the next logical step to ensure that trend continues.
    Elizabeth Logan, Glamour, 5 Oct. 2022
  • Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes and her family leave after the verdict rendered by the jury of four women and eight men.
    Meghan Bobrowsky, WSJ, 7 Jan. 2022
  • After family leave was introduced in the US, in fact, the rate of gender wage convergence fell to just 0.03 percentage points per year, and has remained there ever since.
    Cassie Werber, Quartz, 12 Jan. 2023
  • Democrats say more generous family leave will encourage more women to work and expand the workforce.
    The Editorial Board, WSJ, 6 Oct. 2021
  • This starts with family leave, providing families with the essential time to bond with their children.
    Isabelle Hau, Forbes, 2 Aug. 2022

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