The Democrats are renewing their push for a national paid time-off policy for medical reasons and caregiving, although the odds are against them being able to pass it due to the Republicans, which oppose this measure, control the House of Representatives. Former President Bill Clinton signed into law more than three decades ago the Family and Medical Leave Act, which provides 12 weeks of leave a year for medical and family reasons to workers at larger companies. However, it’s unpaid leave and a group of Democrats is trying to get this changed to paid leave. “The fact that we still stand on what is now a piece of legislation that has largely remained unaltered for the last three decades is pretty atrocious,†Rep. Chrissy Houlahan (D., Pa.) told The Wall Street Journal.
