DETROIT LAKES — The Minnesota House has passed one bill and is considering another that shook up some in the business community, but will be helpful to part-time workers and others who need paid leave, or who don’t currently get paid time off days for illness or personal time.
The more controversial of the two is a bill to provide workers up to 12 weeks per year of paid family and medical leave, paid weekly. That time could be taken either all at once or on a reduced-schedule basis, depending on need.
It would cover workers who need time off for a number of reasons, including serious medical issues with themselves or family members, pregnancy, bonding with the new baby after birth or adoption, inpatient care, and other reasons.
It includes safety leave, for example, which means leave from work because of domestic abuse, sexual assault, or stalking of the applicant or applicant's family member.
The bill is generous in defining qualifying family members for medical leave. It includes the usual family members — spouse, kids, parents — and goes far beyond that to include step-grandparents, nieces, nephews, aunts and uncles, all possible in-laws, foster children, and those who fall under legal guardianship. In fact, the bill includes “any other individual who is related by blood or affinity and whose association with the applicant is equivalent of a family relationship.”
Which pretty much covers all the bases for workers, and is alarming to many employers.
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