Workers have had the right to 12 weeks of unpaid leave after childbirth, adoption and for other serious health issues.
President Donald Trump’s Department of Labor quietly announced last week that it is considering changing the rules of the Family and Medical Leave Act, which grants workers the right to 12 weeks of unpaid leave after childbirth, adoption and for other serious health issues.
The potential changes come as Bloomberg Law reports that Trump’s acting chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney has largely taken control of the rulemaking process at the Department of Labor, currently run by Secretary Alexander Acosta. Mulvaney is reportedly upset with the department’s pace of deregulation. Since January, according to an internal source, any policy or timeline problems have been elevated to Mulvaney who makes a final decision on them.
There is no plan for a rule change around family and medical leave yet, but Trump’s top labor policy adviser James Sherk has spoken about his ideas in the past. In 2007, Sherk penned an 82-page takedown of the current policy, claiming that it’s too lenient and workers take advantage of it.
The president has repeatedly called out abuse of welfare programs as a reason to tighten restrictions and access. In 2017, Trump often repeated the idea that welfare programs in the U.S. were “becoming a very, very big subject, and people are taking advantage of the system.” The president, meanwhile, has bragged about gaming the Internal Revenue Service for “sport.”
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