How to Use family leave in a Sentence
family leave
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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 -
And with that, the family left their home in Santa Rosa.
— Harmeet Kaur, CNN, 29 Oct. 2019 -
The Spurs will have a chance to do that once DeRozan returns from family leave.
— Jeff McDonald, San Antonio Express-News, 12 Mar. 2021 -
The rental was trashed, the family leaving behind chairs and garbage bags stuffed with clothes.
— Ben Austen, The New Republic, 21 June 2018 -
Have the family leave at 7 a.m. and come back 12 hours later to a transformed pad.
— Rodney Ho, ajc, 15 Aug. 2022 -
The family left that same night in a rush, taking with them all their savings, Ms. Mejía said.
— Juan Montes, WSJ, 20 June 2018 -
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 -
What is this showing about sick leave, and family leave?
— Isaac Chotiner, The New Yorker, 14 Apr. 2020 -
His family left in 1957, during one of two major purges of Jews in the postwar years.
— Marc Santora, New York Times, 4 July 2019 -
But what about new mothers out on family leave for three months?
— Edward Lotterman, Twin Cities, 13 Oct. 2019 -
Read the story: When coal jobs leave, what happens to the families left behind?
— Kristina Goetz, The Courier-Journal, 19 Dec. 2019 -
Most families left by choice or were bought out by the government.
— Quanta Magazine, 16 Apr. 2019 -
Some Democrats have pushed a family leave act in the legislature for years but failed each time.
— Wayne Williams, The Denver Post, 1 June 2020 -
Serena and the fairness of the WTA’s family leave act….why is there no Hawkeye on clay?
— The Si Staff, SI.com, 23 May 2018 -
When martial law was declared, my family left the Philippines and came to the United States.
— Eric Johnson, Recode, 26 Nov. 2018 -
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 -
The first such flight since the air blockade carrying eight patients and their families left Sanaa on Feb. 3.
— Washington Post, 8 Feb. 2020 -
All too often, the family leaves the synagogue as well.
— The Salt Lake Tribune, 7 Sep. 2023 -
But Wicks was the deciding vote on a separate bill to expand family leave in the state.
— Barbara Rodriguez, USA TODAY, 12 Sep. 2020 -
The school’s population fell to 55, as about a dozen students and their families left the area after Maria.
— Alexia Fernández Campbell, Vox, 15 June 2018 -
Here are a few tips to set up your new business for success during family leave.
— Stuf, Forbes, 1 July 2022 -
Harbor House provides new linens to every family to use in the shelter and to take when the family leaves for a new home.
— Kate Santich, orlandosentinel.com, 19 Nov. 2019 -
The young princess was holding hands with her mother, Kate Middleton, as the family left church.
— Chloe Foussianes, Town & Country, 26 Dec. 2019 -
On Sunday afternoon, a 5-year-old girl was shot in the ankle as the family left their Albany Park home on their way to a park.
— chicagotribune.com, 2 May 2018 -
The Byers family leaves Hawkins, bringing Eleven with them.
— Darren Franich, EW.com, 4 July 2019 -
This includes up to six months of family leave and medical leave.
— Paula Rogo, Essence, 12 Oct. 2019 -
Every year, sometime around the last weekend of April, my family leaves.
— Anna Thomas Bates, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018 -
And only 27% of private sector workers have paid family leave through their jobs.
— Dawn Huckelbridge, Glamour, 8 Aug. 2024 -
None have paid family leave or particularly strong (if any) rights to organize laws.
— Gili Malinsky, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2024
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