To: The United States Senate
Single Parenting Leave Act (SPLA)
Currently there are over 13 million single parents in the United States who are responsible for caring for over 21 million children with approximately 26% of those children under age 21. Regardless of the reason the parent is a single parent the fact is the parent is a sole provider for minor children who do not have the capability to care for themselves. Often times the single parent possesses and/or has limited access to resources to take proper care of his/her children. Emergency situations may occur at any time, especially with minor children. The Single Parent Leave Act will be an act to protect the jobs of single parents with minor children, under age 21 in the United States of America. If you wish to protect the jobs of single parents in the United States, please sign my petition.
Why is this important?
The Single Parenting Leave Act (SPLA) is an act that I would like to be approved to protect single parents in the United States of America from being subject to discipline with their employers for attendance issues caused by or derived from fulfilling their parental responsibilities.
Ex: Single Parent A is at work and receives a telephone
call that his daughter is sick and needs to be picked up from school immediately. It is against this employer's policy for it's
employees to have unscheduled absences without a
supervisor's approval. However, Single Parent A notifies his
employer of the situation and states he needs to use his employer approved Single Parenting Leave Act benefit to cover his unscheduled departure from work. The supervisor checks to see how many hours of this benefit is available for
this employee, verifies there is an emergency situation taking place, and acknowledges that Single Parent A is a single parent with sole parental responsibilities, therefore approves for the Single Parenting Leave Act benefit to cover the amount of time and unscheduled departure that Single Parent A has requested. Single Parent A is immediately protected from discipline for attendance and all requests for discipline for attendance.