Family & Medical Leave Act of 1993

After years of delays engineered by Republican presidential administrations and the Republican congressional minorities, the Family and Medical leave Act of 1993 was enacted into law. A majority of American employers have been complaining for years that any type of family and medical leave bill would send them reeling into bankruptcy. With the enactment of this law, many employers are now complaining more loudly about the Act may portend for the future--such a mandatory paid leave and paid daycare--that about problems that may be associated with the provisions of the new Act itself. Nevertheless, there are some sticky issues and some potentially significant problems associated with the new Act. Critics complain that the new law expands opportunities for fraudulent leave claims. Still others contend that disgruntled employees may invoke the new Act as a basis for law suits long subsequent to any dispute over a specific incident involving provisions of the Act. Still other employers worry about the cost of continuing medical insurance coverage for employees on leave, and costs associated with hiring temporary help.

This research assesses the probable economic consequences of the Family and Medical Leave Act. This assessment is made with respect to the American economy as a whole, as opposed to any specific entity within the economy. Further, the assessment is made within the context of

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external environment in which firms must function is partly responsible for the pressures on firms to provide such services. When society reaches a point where firms are expected to provide child care services, a firm may provide such services, and, in turn, include the cost for such services in their pricing schedule. In part also, however, a changing internal environment places pressures on firms to provide daycare services. The large and growing proportion of women employees of child bearing age is the causal factor in this context. Where society has not fully determined that such services should be provided by firms, however, some firms will not be able to pass along the cost of such services through pricing. This situation prevails in the United States in the 1990s. Thus, it is often suggested that some governmental assistance will be required for many firms, if they are to provide child daycare services. Some firms, however, have been able to justify the provision of child daycare services. These firms have determined that the increased productivity of their employees which results from the provision of daycare services more than offsets the costs of providing such services. In these instances,
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