family leave

a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.

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The following procedures should be used when requesting or processing paid, unpaid, or family leave requests.

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"Certainly we expect to maintain both a career and a family, but we expect excellence in one role will come at some cost to the other. Certainly we would like to think we're entitled to . . . Caribbean vacations, but we're chastened by our minimal savings and the specter of our husbands losing their jobs. Certainly we want issues such as child care and family leave to be perceived as problems affecting all of us, not just women—but we recognize, too, that we must then all bear the burden of paying for them and making them work for the businesses upon which our economic survival is based."

-Melinda M. Marshall