family leave
: a usually unpaid leave of absence for an employee to attend to family concerns (such as a serious illness or the care of an infant)
Recent Examples on the Web
//The boys’ mother had died shortly before the family left the Soviet Union.
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Masha Gessen, The New Yorker, "How Trump’s Supporters Distort Alexander Vindman’s Very American Origin Story," 31 Oct. 2019
//Detectives said the family leaves the country often, and said Angel Rivera is a flight risk due to the homicide investigation.
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Htv National Desk, Houston Chronicle, "Husband, father-in-law charged in murder of woman who failed to pick her son up from school," 29 Oct. 2019
//And with that, the family left their home in Santa Rosa.
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Harmeet Kaur, CNN, "A family lost their home in a wildfire two years ago. They just had to evacuate again," 29 Oct. 2019
//The Martínez family left El Salvador in April and arrived in Matamoros before sunrise on Sunday.
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Juan Montes, WSJ, "Migrant Crisis at Border Intensifies as Senate Passes Aid Bill," 26 June 2019
//Her parents also survived the second raid, in which 4,500 people died, and the family left Königsberg for Hanover in January 1945.
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C.g. | Berlin And Kaliningrad, The Economist, "Commemorating the devastation of Königsberg," 29 Aug. 2019
//The change in status mandated by the law would mean that the drivers—Uber and Lyft employ about 220,000 in California alone—be eligible for unemployment insurance and family leave, earn minimum wage and overtime, and have bargaining rights.
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Wired, "How Tech Firms Like Uber Hide Behind the ‘Platform Defense’," 13 Sep. 2019
//Haverhill, Massachusetts, lost half its children, with 23 families left childless.
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Richard Conniff, National Geographic, "The world before vaccines is a world we can’t afford to forget," 16 Aug. 2019
//Yang’s policies nod to everything from long-standing political movements (promoting gun safety, ending mass incarceration, paid family leave) to resolving minor gripes (a government hotline to report robocalls).
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Emily Witt, The New Yorker, "How Andrew Yang’s Robot Apocalypse Can Heal a Divided Nation," 18 July 2019
First Known Use of family leave
1968, in the meaning defined above
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