Family Friendly Workplace

FAMILY-FRIENDLY WORKPLACE
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The Family and Medical Leave Act was a bill passed in 1993, which provides American citizens with time off their duties to cater for a particularly urgent need of themselves or their immediate family members. These might be either one's spouse or child. It also mainly focuses on people who have had service in the military, but exclusively covers all eligible American citizens. The Act provides a maximum of up to three months of unpaid leave from work so that one can look after his or herself when in critical health, or that of their seriously ill or injured spouse or child; or to take care of their newborn baby.
The Act has had its chief success as being able to provide this much-needed time for workers to spend with their families, and therefore look after the health of the American families. However, it has its limitations as well. The ...