we do not need laws or statutes like the f.m.l.a for one simple reason.

employees should simply stop working for companies that do not contractually offer medical leave benefits, and find employment at other companies that act in a more enlightened manner.

if enough employees did that, it will force all employers to clean up their act, and compete for the labor force by offering competing benefits.

instead, if your only instrument for handling such issues is federal law, you are opening yourself up to despotic regimes taking benefits away from you.

true, leaving a job because of bad pay, poor benefits, and unsavory working conditions, does mean that you have to tolerate some amount of hardship (in the interim before you find a better job, or you have to live on savings for extended periods of time). but nothing good ever comes without sacrifice. if you expect the government to always bail you out, especially in a "democracy" like the u.s.---where world-changing electoral choices are made by multi-generationally inbred retarded redneck rethuglican troglodytes, you will always end up in a situation where everything good you have in your life, every freedom and liberty you have come to value, will always be in jeopardy every 2year congressional election cycle.

don't live like slaves. fight back, and you will find employers sacred shitless into treating you with dignity. 

on the other hand, if you are so dispensible as an employee that your employer does not give 2 shits about firing you because you ask for better benefits, you don't deserve those benefits anyway.  not everyone on the planet gets to live anywhere close to the level of opulence of the typical u.s. citizen, and even highly deserving people whose only "fault" is the geographical accident of a "wrong" birthplace are not compensated justly. in such a world, a worthless u.s. employee does not get to complain and demand benefits that they do not deserve.