Best Mother’s Day Gift Ever

What would be the best Mother’s Day Gift?

The Family Leave Insurance Act of 2008.

I want to show mother’s how much I REALLY love them.

I want tangible family values and not just hot air popping out of politicians mouths who then vote against employment policies that value families.

I want to pass the Family Leave Insurance Act which declares that Americans value families in a real monetary paid 12 weeks kind of way.

Join me and Momsrising this Mother’s Day in writing your representative and asking them to value Mom’s contribution to both the family and the workplace (no, it’s not too much to ask).

Ask your husband to honor your motherhood in the same way. (It takes two seconds.)

The Family Leave Insurance Act of 2008 will:

* Provide all workers with 12 weeks of paid leave over a 12-month period to care for a new child, provide for an ill family member, treat their own illness, or deal with an exigency caused by the deployment of a member of the military;

* Provide these benefits through a new trust fund that is financed equally by employers and employees, who will each contribute 0.2% of the employee’s pay;

* Progressively tier the benefits so that a low wage worker (earning less than $30,000) will receive full or near full salary replacement, middle income workers ($30,000- $60,000) receive 55% wage replacement, and higher earners (over $60,000) receive 40-45%, with the benefit capped at approximately $800 per week;

* Administer the program through the Department of Labor which will contract with states to administer the program (similar to how the Unemployment Insurance program is run);

* Allow states and businesses with materially equivalent or better benefits to opt-out of the program.

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