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Podcast: MPR News with Angela Davis
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Almost all Minnesota workers may get paid time off for family and medical leave 
Category: News & Politics
Duration: 00:47:33
Publish Date: 2023-05-15 16:00:00
Description:

Paid family and medical leave is poised to become law in Minnesota.

Most working Americans have access to unpaid time off for the arrival of a child or to handle their own or a family member’s illness. But three in four American civilian workers have no access to paid family leave and one in five has no access to paid sick leave.

Under a proposal working its way through the final legislative stages, paid leave would expand to nearly all working Minnesotans.

MPR News guest host Chris Farrell talks about how the proposed state-run insurance program would work, how it would be funded and how it could affect small businesses. 

Guests: 

  • Dana Ferguson is a politics reporter with MPR News.

  • John Reynolds is the Minnesota state director for the National Federation of Independent Businesses. The organization represents small businesses in Minnesota. 

  • Rep. Ruth Richardson (DFL-Mendota Heights) is chief sponsor of HF2, the House version of the paid family and medical leave bill. 

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