Delegates at this week’s AMA annual meeting in Chicago took several actions that furthered the association’s work towards helping members of the LQBTQ community.
Modifying family and medical leave policies
The first action calls for AMA to advocate for Family and Medical Leave Act policies to include any person related by blood or affinity “whose close association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship,” such as partners, spouses and relatives of LGBTQ workers.
Several states and Washington, D.C., have already expanded their Family and Medical Leave
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