Anglo and Latino Worker Attitudes Toward California Paid Leave: Written by Karina Ramos, Iris Beltran, and Heidi Rigglio and published in 2004 by the Berger Institute. This brief article reports the findings of a survey that “examined California residents' knowledge of and attitudes toward PFLA, as well as their current concerns involving child care, elder care, family illness, and taking leave from work.”

Employment Development Department’s Paid Family Leave page: California’s Employment Development Department administers the state’s Paid Family Leave program. This section of their web site includes directions on filing a claim, all necessary forms for utilizing the program, answers to frequently asked questions for employees and employers, statistics on the use of the program during the first year of its availability and much more.

Paid Leave Clearinghouse: “Today’s working families face serious challenges as they attempt to balance the competing demands of work and family, and Americans are engaged in a lively debate as to what public policies will best help families meet these challenges. One major focus of this debate is paid family and medical leave. The National Partnership for Women and Families has launched the Paid Leave Clearinghouse to provide easy access to the facts, ideas, and arguments that inform this discussion. It is an on-line library of citations and, in many cases, full-text documents pertaining to the topic of paid family and medical leave. It includes scholarly publications but also a wide range of other materials such as bills, reports, court opinions, advocacy materials, editorials, and survey findings.”

Publications and materials from the Labor Project for Working Families: The Labor Project for Working Families has compiled six full text articles and briefs that examine California’s Paid Leave Program, including cost and benefit analyses and a survey on public attitude and knowledge about the law. Also available at the site is the Family Fact Sheet Series, “an information resource on five state laws designed to help Californians balance work and family,” available in English, Spanish and Chinese.

Global Perspectives - The Work, Family and Equity Index: Where Does the United States Stand Globally?: Written by Jody Heymann, Alison Earle, Stephanie Simmons, Stephanie M. Breslow and April Kuehnhoff and published in 2004 by The Project on Global Working Families, Harvard’s School of Public Health. This report investigates worldwide policies on “the working conditions that are needed to care for children and other family members.”