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Work-life balance is a belief in an idea that one holds the fundamental right to pursue a career whilst maintaining time to attend to family, seek medical care, or engage in personal enjoyment. However, this quality of life hasn't always been the forefront of importance to the United States government and its industries. During the early 1900s men, women, and children alike were quite often shorted from their pay while being deprived of proper rest breaks made to confront exceedingly long hours that kept them from home, all of which were amongst daily exposures to life threatening work conditions. One particular incidence was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on March 25, 1911. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a sweatshop that burst into …show more content…
Often times individuals can not financially sustain long periods of work leave in cases of emergency. Which does not begin to take into consideration a caregivers time needed to play a weekly active role in the lives of their dependents. As is the case for David Delgado, a Dispatch Coordinator for Verio Healthcare, who works full time monday through friday from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, totalling 42.50 hours a week away from home. Being that this is a typical work week, David spends about 32.50 hours a week with his daughter, the majority of his time spent on the weekend. Meaning he spends a total 1.50 hours a day monday through friday with his child. He views himself as compensating a stranger to raise his daughter. Which is a strong sentiment shared by many working …show more content…
However, as a means to provide and end, a few states such as California provide caregivers school leave. California, offering the most hours under School leave, dictates an employer with 25 or more employees to administer forty hours a year of job protected leave to caretakers of one or more children to attend school activities, enrollments, or emergencies. California’s legislated school leave is followed by D.C. with a designated twenty four hours a year, Illinois at eight hours, Massachusetts with twenty four, Louisiana and Minnesota set at sixteen, North Carolina at four, Rhode Island with 10, and lastly Vermont sitting at twelve
Work-life balance is a belief in an idea that one holds the fundamental right to pursue a career whilst maintaining time to attend to family, seek medical care, or engage in personal enjoyment. However, this quality of life hasn't always been the forefront of importance to the United States government and its industries. During the early 1900s men, women, and children alike were quite often shorted from their pay while being deprived of proper rest breaks made to confront exceedingly long hours that kept them from home, all of which were amongst daily exposures to life threatening work conditions. One particular incidence was the Triangle Shirtwaist Fire on March 25, 1911. Triangle Shirtwaist Factory was a sweatshop that burst into …show more content…
Often times individuals can not financially sustain long periods of work leave in cases of emergency. Which does not begin to take into consideration a caregivers time needed to play a weekly active role in the lives of their dependents. As is the case for David Delgado, a Dispatch Coordinator for Verio Healthcare, who works full time monday through friday from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm, totalling 42.50 hours a week away from home. Being that this is a typical work week, David spends about 32.50 hours a week with his daughter, the majority of his time spent on the weekend. Meaning he spends a total 1.50 hours a day monday through friday with his child. He views himself as compensating a stranger to raise his daughter. Which is a strong sentiment shared by many working …show more content…
However, as a means to provide and end, a few states such as California provide caregivers school leave. California, offering the most hours under School leave, dictates an employer with 25 or more employees to administer forty hours a year of job protected leave to caretakers of one or more children to attend school activities, enrollments, or emergencies. California’s legislated school leave is followed by D.C. with a designated twenty four hours a year, Illinois at eight hours, Massachusetts with twenty four, Louisiana and Minnesota set at sixteen, North Carolina at four, Rhode Island with 10, and lastly Vermont sitting at twelve