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D.C.'s expansive family and medical leave policy advances

The Washington Post: D.C. Council members voted Tuesday to move forward with one of the nation’s most generous laws guaranteeing family and medical leave, creating roughly $250 million a year in new taxes on local businesses to fund two months of paid time off for workers to care for newborn or adopted children.

The bill, which would apply to both full- and part-time workers, also grants employees six weeks of paid leave to help ailing relatives and two weeks of personal sick leave per year, placing the District at the forefront of jurisdictions with family-friendly workplace laws but alarming employers who say the nation’s capital is becoming an increasingly costly place to do business.

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