Policy Watch: The Family and Medical Leave Act
总结了《家庭与医疗休假法案》的条款及其对劳动力市场的可能影响，发现该法案实际条款较为温和，既未给工人带来巨大福利，也未给雇主造成显著成本。
This article summarizes the provisions of the Family and Medical Leave Act, its possible effects on labor markets, and the resulting changes in the ability of workers to take leave. The author concludes that the actual provisions of the act are quite modest and have yielded neither large benefits to workers nor imposed significant costs on employers. One reason for this is that few workers gained significant new rights to time off work because the legislation contains many exemptions and employees often had other mechanisms for obtaining leave prior to its enactment.