S: Sick Days, Paid
Posted July 30th, 2010 by Vicki Shabo
Last weekend and earlier this week, I was in Louisville, Kentucky talking about paid sick days and economic security with both labor leaders and state legislators who champion issues important to workers. Advocates who lead paid sick days campaigns routinely praise organized labor’s hard work on these issues—and it is obvious why. I had the [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Tim Judson
As we look forward to 2011, paid sick days campaigns in the states are reaching critical mass: since President Obama was elected, a majority of states have taken up the issue, with twenty-three legislatures introducing bills, and city campaigns moving in three other states. Several more states will introduce paid sick days bills in 2011, and [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Natale Zimmer
Paid sick leave is sometimes described as a conflict between employers and employees, and it’s often framed as worker greed versus small business owner just trying to get by. But this issue is bigger than workers and employers. It’s also about families, colleagues and customers. Families need to be taken care of. If a primary [...]
Posted July 29th, 2010 by Natale Zimmer
Workers have always needed to care for their children, families and elderly relatives, and at the same time, be productive, responsible employees. For women, this breadth of responsibilities is felt with greater pressure, as women are more often the primary caregivers at home in addition to their paid outside employment. But today, when workplaces don’t provide the basic labor [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Ruth Martin
Last month we asked MomsRising members like you to share your experiences with paid sick days – how having access to earned paid sick days has helped, or how NOT having them has hurt. The response was overwhelming! Moving story after moving story flowed into our offices. And now we’re moving those personal stories around in places where they can make a difference. MomsRising [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Melissa Schober
This year the White House, in cooperation with the Council on Women and Girls, hosted a conference on Workplace Flexibility. The conference came on the heels of a report by the Council of Economic Advisors on the benefits to employers of offering paid leave and flextime, official guidance on caregiving discrimination by the EEOC, and [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Jodie Levin-Epstein
Vacations are good for your health. And, you don’t need to get away to any fancy Caribbean retreat to get the benefit of time-off from work. But it helps if you are a horse. In New York City, that is. The City’s Health Department has proposed new rules for those horses hitched to carriages that [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Andrea Lindemann
The Obama Administration’s recently announced regulations mandating health plans cover preventative care without charging co-pays to the consumer is a significant step forward, but it alone won’t ensure Americans get the preventive care they need. A critical component of preventative care is access. For individuals who have finite time off work and no paid sick [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Nicole Tobiasz-Murphy
Paid sick days — it sounds like a good idea for employees, but it’s also good for businesses. Healthy workers are essential to a strong economy and to business success. When workers are provided with paid sick time, they demonstrate increased job satisfaction, commitment and morale. Their employers reap the benefits of high performance and [...]
Posted July 28th, 2010 by Judy Wemhoff
The National Opinion Research Center (NORC) recently released a survey on paid sick days that has people talking. The survey shows that the vast majority of Americans support legislation requiring employers to provide paid sick days. Most people feel that paid sick days are a basic right – the same share as believe minimum wage [...]
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