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Continued from Front ment employees 12 weeks earners in the top 25%.
Glynn was back at work af- of paid parental leave as The same year Sawyer died
ter just a few weeks, smiling part of a defense bill that — 2015 — Netflix granted
for customers. She some- President Donald Trump new parents a year of paid
times hid in the restaurant signed into law on Friday . time off. Most other major
office to cry. But it still leaves about 80% tech companies have simi-
"Just seeing a family come of U.S. workers in the pri- lar generous polices, as do
in was triggering. Seeing a vate sector with no access big banks and major con-
kid come in," said Glynn, to paid family leave. The sulting firms.
who now works for several U.S. is one of a handful of Meanwhile, millions of
non-profits, including Mom- countries that lacks a fed- construction workers, re-
sRising, a group that ad- eral policy, at least for new tail workers, public school
vocates for paid parental mothers, leaving employers teachers, warehouse and
leave and other policies. to decide whether to offer transportation workers and
"But we had to make the it. Disproportionately, paid restaurant employees have
money back." leave has gone to higher- to forego paychecks to
Glynn is on the losing side paid white collar workers. take time to care for a new
of a growing movement to Just 9% of wage earners in child.
provide U.S. workers with the bottom 25% have ac- As a waitress, Glynn be-
paid parental leave. cess to paid family leave, longed to the group least
Congress passed a bill ear- according to the U.S. Bu- likely to have paid parental This undated self-made photo provided by Nancy Glynn shows
lier in the week giving the reau of Labor Statistics. That leave: part-time workers. Glynn, of Manchester, N.H., with her son Hunter.
country's 2.1 million govern- compares to 30% of wage Read More on Next Page Associated Press