Civil Law

Many more Americans will have to choose between job and family when medical crises strike or babies are born if the Bush Administration rolls back the 12-year-old Family and Medical Leave Act, the nation's leading expert on the law warned today. Speaking before a hearing organized by the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, the president of the National Partnership for Women and Families cautioned that changes being considered by the U.S. Department of Labor could deny job-protected leave to nearly half those who currently benefit from the law.