we have seen in mr. e ga*n's economic impact report that it's very heavily skewed that it's mostly mothers taking leave but we also want the other parent to take the leave as well, lots of fisbacker issues to continue working on, i look forward to working with all of you, with all of my colleagues here with supervisor wiener on those issues, so again, i'm supportive overall of this legislation. i want to revisit some of the issues that i had addressed earlier and i'm happy to just see if we can take a vote on the amendments and if they pass, they pass, if they don't, they don't, so one of the things was regarding the private right of action, again, i understand where supervisor wiener, you're coming from on this, and i think that this is something that is very groundbreaking legislation and i just want to make our employers feel comfortable about this program, so i would like to throw out the motion there about removing the private right of action in this legislation. so, i don't know if supervisor yee, or if

we have seen in mr. e ga*n's economic impact report that it's very heavily skewed that it's mostly mothers taking leave but we also want the other parent to take the leave as well, lots of fisbacker issues to continue working on, i look forward to working with all of you, with all of my colleagues here with supervisor wiener on those issues, so again, i'm supportive overall of this legislation. i want to revisit some of the issues that i had addressed earlier and i'm happy to just see if we can take a vote on the amendments and if they pass, they pass, if they don't, they don't, so one of the things was regarding the private right of action, again, i understand where supervisor wiener, you're coming from on this, and i think that this is something that is very groundbreaking legislation and i just want to make our employers feel comfortable about this program, so i would like to throw out the motion there about removing the private right of action in this legislation. so, i don't know if supervisor yee, or if

we have seen in mr. e ga*n's economic impact report that it's very heavily skewed that it's mostly mothers taking leave but we also want the other parent to take the leave as well, lots of fisbacker issues to continue working on, i look forward to working with all of you, with all of my colleagues here with supervisor wiener on those issues, so again, i'm supportive overall of this legislation. i want to revisit some of the issues that i had addressed earlier and i'm happy to just see if we can take a vote on the amendments and if they pass, they pass, if they don't, they don't, so one of the things was regarding the private right of action, again, i understand where supervisor wiener, you're coming from on this, and i think that this is something that is very groundbreaking legislation and i just want to make our employers feel comfortable about this program, so i would like to throw out the motion there about removing the private right of action in this legislation. so, i don't know if supervisor yee, or if

especially turn-over when they need family leave, and the way the program works at the state level, mr. e ga*n also mentioned but i want to reiterate, that 55% of wages that workers are getting is funded entirely by workers, employers do not pay a penny into that fund, no general tax dollars from the state go into that found, it's through a worker's pay tax deduction, so workers are paying into this insurance tax themselves and they are paying for the entire premium and it is administered through a state agency which is the employment development department, and what we know from the last ten years of paid family leave is that over 1.8 million working families in california have benefited from this benefit to improve their health and well being during a vulnerable time in their live and is the number of men who have used paid leave for bonding has doubled, it remains an unfortunately inequitable number because a third of claims filed are used by men, but a presence of paid leave has allowed more men to increasingly take this benefit which is important for the health outcomes of the child and

we have seen in mr. e ga*n's economic impact report that it's very heavily skewed that it's mostly mothers taking leave but we also want the other parent to take the leave as well, lots of fisbacker issues to continue working on, i look forward to working with all of you, with all of my colleagues here with supervisor wiener on those issues, so again, i'm supportive overall of this legislation. i want to revisit some of the issues that i had addressed earlier and i'm happy to just see if we can take a vote on the amendments and if they pass, they pass, if they don't, they don't, so one of the things was regarding the private right of action, again, i understand where supervisor wiener, you're coming from on this, and i think that this is something that is very groundbreaking legislation and i just want to make our employers feel comfortable about this program, so i would like to throw out the motion there about removing the private right of action in this legislation. so, i don't know if supervisor yee, or if