Associated Press | "More states requiring paid medical or sick leave"

The Associated Press quoted Aleta Sprague, director of legal analysis and communication with the UCLA Fielding School's WORLD Policy Analysis Center, about how the U.S. compares to the rest of the world in terms of paid medical or sick leave.

"There is no federal law requiring paid leave. The Family and Medical Leave Act guarantees only unpaid time off. It also doesn’t apply to a large chunk of the workforce, including employees of small businesses that are exempt.

This makes the U.S. a “major outlier” globally, according to Aleta Sprague of UCLA’s World Policy Analysis Center. She said that 95% of countries provide some kind of paid leave for personal health.

'And in most countries that are our economic peers, it’s a substantial amount of leave,' she said."

Read the Associated Press article