Paid Sick Days

June 27, 2011

There are approximately 190,000 people working in Seattle without paid sick leave. If you are not one of them, why should you care? Because, if they get sick, they go to work sick handling your food, your groceries, or your personal items in your home while caring for your loved ones. And it does...

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City Councilmember Nick Licata

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

June 20, 2011

Working parents have a lot to juggle, and this can create stress. But what we often overlook is that stress has real health consequences. Several weeks ago, I put together a survey * asking working parents about stress and its effects on their health. More than 600 people responded. I filtered out...

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Katrina Alcorn

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

June 16, 2011

“I want to be the dad who attends all the little league games and dance recitals, the dad who is there in the afternoon/evening to help with homework, the dad who sits down to dinner with his family every night. My current job does not allow for that to happen.” — media professional and father of...

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Jared Make

Paid Sick Days

June 15, 2011

It may be time to say, "As Connecticut goes, so goes the nation." Any day now, Connecticut's governor is expected to place his John Hancock on a bill that will make Connecticut the first state in the nation to enact a minimum standard for paid sick days. That sends "an important signal to the other...

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Jodie Levin-Epstein

Paid Sick Days

June 15, 2011

UPDATE: Great news! The Earned Sick Days bill passed the Philadelphia City Council last week by 1 vote! Congratulations to the Coalition for Health Families and Workplaces and all the Moms Rising members who took the time to send stories and contact City Council members. But there is one last step...

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Ruth Martin

Paid Sick Days

June 9, 2011

It is HOT! And we’re not just talking about the weather! The Philadelphia campaign for earned sick days is heating up this week. The City Council is debating the bill *this* Thursday and is expected to vote on the bill *next* Thursday. The vote is going to be close. We need to act now to make sure...

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Ruth Martin

Paid Sick Days

June 8, 2011

In recent weeks, I've written here and here about legislation before Philadelphia City Council that would allow every worker in the city to earn paid sick days. To round things out, I am now passing along an op-ed I co-authored with Lonnie Golden, a professor of economics and labor studies at Penn...

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Steve Herzenberg

Paid Sick Days

June 7, 2011

The Institute for Women's Policy Research is venturing into new territory. IWPR has been selected to compete in the Pepsi Refresh Project , a voter-driven contest that could win IWPR $25,000 for raising awareness on the status of women. With previous grants going to projects that build playgrounds...

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Clark Jennifer

Paid Sick Days

June 1, 2011

Last week, I wrote that when you look at the positive benefits and the low costs of Philadelphia’s proposed paid sick days legislation, it could end up paying for itself. As I wrote that, I could almost hear a collective gasp from neoclassical economists: “If it paid for itself, employers would...

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Steve Herzenberg

Paid Sick Days

May 27, 2011

Every night a second grade teacher washes the top cover of her reading couch because some child has had to come to class with the flu rather than staying home alone. A principal describes the number of high school students who miss school to stay home with a younger sibling because a parent can’t...

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