Resource Map Monday: Minimum Wage Laws—Where Does Your State Stand?

This page contains a chart of state family medical leave laws with provisions similar to the federal FLMA and parental leave for children's educational activities.

This year, states have enacted legislation to reduce barriers to public employment, ease a return to public service from retirement and enhance public employee benefits.

Total nonfarm payroll employment rose by 275,000 in February, and the unemployment rate increased to 3.9 percent, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Job gains occurred in health care, in government, in food services and drinking places, in social assistance, and in transportation and warehousing.