The New Parent Leave Act builds on existing law, allowing eligible employees at companies with 20 to 49 employees to take three months of unpaid leave to care for a newborn or newly adopted child, with the guarantee that their jobs will remain open for them. The time can be combined with the state’s separate, paid family leave insurance program, which replaces as much as 70 percent of lost wages, thus giving California workers at small businesses a version of the paid, job-pr

"Leadership and accountability set the tone and the expectation that harassment will not be tolerated in a workplace." -- Victoria A. Lipnic, Acting Chair, EEOC Select Task Force on the Study of Harassment in the Workplace. At a public meeting, one year after the #MeToo movement went viral, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) heard leaders describe various approaches that aim to prevent harassment and give employers and employees skills needed to respond