Plan to provide Nebraskans with paid family, medical leave draws scrutiny in Legislature

[Omaha Steve]

(introduced by State Sen. Sue Crawford of Bellevue, my Senator OS)

http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/plan-to-provide-nebraskans-with-paid-family-medical-leave-draws/article_8b9c9c56-d74a-55dc-b9dc-7a2f0e0304b5.html

Posted: Saturday, September 26, 2015 12:30 am
By Martha Stoddard / World-Herald Bureau

LINCOLN — Cary Mohiuddin gives thanks every day that her family’s nearly four-year nightmare has not been worse.

The Omaha woman still has her job and her paycheck. And the family hasn’t lost the health insurance that proved so vital when her husband’s strep throat turned into life-threatening septic shock.

Mohiuddin credits her employer, Collective for Youth, with being supportive and flexible. But she knows many other workers are not as lucky.

That’s why she came to Lincoln on Friday to urge the Legislature’s Business and Labor Committee to consider creating a paid family and medical leave program.

FULL story at link.

[Omaha Steve]

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