Americans Prefer Their Employers, Not the Government, to Provide Health Benefits
People want more medical leave, but like other perks, they prefer for it to come from companies.
Most Americans don’t get fully paid medical leave, but they want it. According to a massive Pew Research survey released today, only 47 percent of people who took time off from work for medical or family reasons did so while receiving their regular salary, while 36 percent took time off with no pay. (The rest received partial pay.) Those at lower incomes were much less likely to get paid leave than wealthier people were.
The U.S. is the world’s in which workers aren’t guaranteed paid leave of get paid leave to deal with their own health conditions. (Americans were more likely to endorse paid medical leave than maternity, paternity, or caregiver leave.)
