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From: mfs@mhuxr.UUCP (SIMON)
Newsgroups: net.women
Subject: Re: Job protected maternity leave
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Date: Thu, 5-Sep-85 08:49:16 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep  5 08:49:16 1985
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> 
> There is currently a bill (HR2020) introduced by Pat Schroeder that would
> require employers to give mothers OR fathers at least a four-month unpaid
> leave and protect their jobs if they choose to stay home with a newborn,
> newly adopted or seriously ill child.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> I think this is just another example of how we're discriminated against
> at so many levels.

I think such a bill is great idea, which in the current political stream
has little chance of passing. I plan to write both Rep Schroeder
and my own Rep in support of it

Marcel Simon