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Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act into law, granting 12 weeks of job protection to workers recovering from an accident, tending to a sick loved one or caring for a new baby. 


Since then, FMLA has been used more than 100 million times. Yet nearly half of the workers in the country aren't covered under the law, either because they work part-time or because their employer has fewer than 50 employees. 

, executive director of the Boston College Center for Work & Family and a research professor in the Carroll School of Management, will join The Daily Circuit Thursday, March 7, to talk about the future of FMLA. 

, executive director of Family Values at Work Consortium, will also join the discussion.

 and what hasn't? (Harvard Business Review)

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Twenty years ago, President Bill Clinton signed the Family and Medical Leave Act into law, granting 12 weeks of job protection to workers recovering from an accident, tending to a sick loved one or caring for a new baby. How well does the law work today?

20 years after FMLA, is work leave helping enough employees?

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