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Paid family leave proposal would cost Illinois workers, businesses

By Washington Examiner
Published October 19, 2020 1:30pm ET
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Paid family leave proposal would cost Illinois workers, businesses
In this Thursday, June 1, 2017 photo, Elena Tenenbaum kisses her eight-week-old baby Zoe while standing for a photograph at their home in Providence, R.I. Tenenbaum, a clinical psychology researcher, had her second daughter in April of 2017, and has been able to use Rhode Island's paid family leave program, which started in 2014 and covers four weeks of partial pay. | (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Illinois state Sen. Ram Villivalam plans to introduce a paid family leave bill in the Illinois legislature sometime in 2021.

The proposal would give employees full or partial paychecks for three to six months when they have a new baby, need to care for a sick relative or have an illness themselves.

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