family leave
12
2.7
- noun
- /ˈfæmɪli liːv/
:
permiso familiar
- Unfortunately, the NRC had no family-leave policy for postdocs.
- family leave policy
- time for family leave
Maybe companies can mandate their leadership team take family leave.
- Maybe companies can mandate their leadership team take family leave.
- It doesn't have moms or dads whose kids get sick and they can't they they have no family leave whatsoever work, which is right.
- They're all their great parental leave and paid family leave and, you know, universal pre-K and, you know, egalitarian tax system.
Examples
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Why do we have to offer family leave to male employees?
Fiction book (1999) -
The people who bear the brunt of inadequate family-leave policies are women.
Academic text (1995) -
What about the larger cost of paid family leave?
Academic text (2018) -
Few, if any, have family leave for graduate students.
Academic text (1995) -
I've already signed the paperwork for your emergency family leave.
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The right to take 12 weeks of job-protected family leave was initiated in 1993.
Academic text (2005) -
Recent research on the impact of the Paid Family Leave Act in California shows that rates of family leave usage increased in response to the new law, even in workplaces that previously made family leave available to employees.
Academic text (2013) -
Consider the family-leave statutes that have been enacted on both the federal and state levels.
Academic text (1997) -
Although it was hailed as landmark legislation, the FMLA has left the United States with the stingiest family-leave law in the industrialized world.
Academic text (1995) -
The company offers generous family leave to support new parents during the first months after a child's birth.
Synonyms
443
3.8
Official permission to be absent from work or duty
160
1.6
A time when you are not working, often to rest or recover
38
3.9
A period when someone is officially allowed to be away from work or school
5
3.4
Time off work to care for a new child after birth or adoption
4
3.2
Time a father can take off work after a child is born or adopted
How Long
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'time away from work to care for family members' is directly and compositionally derived from 'family' (relatives) + 'leave' (authorized absence from work); the noun phrase transparently indicates leave for family reasons. This is a common workplace compound found across languages and registers, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
The term family leave comes from the simple idea that leave means permission to be away from work and family means your close relatives. Employers began giving this time so parents or carers could be with a new baby or look after a sick relative, so it now means 'time away from work to care for family'.