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California's Paid Family Leave (PFL) insurance program, which is also known as the Family Temporary Disability Insurance (FTDI) program, is a law enacted in 2002 that extends unemployment disability compensation to cover individuals who take time off work to care for a seriously ill family member or bond with a new minor child. Benefits equal approximately 55% of earnings and have a maximum per week. The Paid Family Leave program is administered by the State Disability Insurance (SDI) program of the Employment Development Department.〔EDD. ( About the Paid Family Leave Insurance Program. ) Retrieved July 21, 2008.〕 Benefits commenced on July 1, 2004. The statute states that PFL must be taken concurrently with leave under the federal Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) and the California Family Rights Act (CFRA), both of which provide for twelve weeks of unpaid leave in a twelve-month period. The PFL insurance program is fully funded by employees' contributions, similar to the SDI program. ==History== In 2002, after an extended campaign by the California Labor Federation, AFL-CIO 〔http://www.californialabor.org〕 and the Work and Family Coalition led by the Labor Project for Working Families,〔Netsy Firestein and Nicola Dones, "Unions Fight for Work and Family Policies--Not for Women Only," in ''The Sex of Class: Women Transforming American Labor'' ed. Dorothy Sue Cobble, pp. 140-154. Cornell University Press, 2007.〕 California was the first state to pass a law requiring the Paid Family Leave program;〔Jones, Gregg. (Davis to sign bill allowing paid family leave. ) ''Los Angeles Times'', September 23, 2002.〕 however, in a 2007 survey of California adults, only 28.1% were aware of the program.〔Milkman, Ruth. (New data on paid family leave ) University of California at Los Angeles, January 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2008.〕 As of mid-2008, the only other states that had passed laws to offer paid family leave benefits were Washington and New Jersey.〔Lu, Adrienne. (Paid family leave now law in N.J. ) ''Philadelphia Inquirer'', May 3, 2008. Retrieved July 21, 2008.〕 In 2009, five years after California's paid family leave law first went into effect, Congresswoman Lynn Woolsey, a Democrat from the same state, introduced H.R. 2339, the Family Income Responding to Significant Transitions (FIRST) Act, which would provide federal grants to states with existing paid family leave laws to implement and administer their paid family leave programs, and would encourage other states to develop their own paid family leave programs.〔http://www.paidfamilyleave.org/press/press_release_5th.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Paid Family Leave (California)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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