Open Flexible Work

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work Blog Carnivals

July 28, 2010

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...

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Melissa Schober

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work Blog Carnivals

July 28, 2010

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...

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Jodie Levin-Epstein

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

July 27, 2010

A quiet revolution has been taking place in Sweden for 15 years, affecting everything from the gender pay gap to workplace culture to relationships between parents and children. It all started at home. Here’s a link to the fascinating New York Times story about this phenomenon. Now here’s my...

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Katrina Alcorn

Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

July 20, 2010

Back in the day, the average American thought of unions as mainly involving white guys who work in factories, pull down enough income to support a wife at home raising children, have two cars and a house in the suburbs, and look forward to a comfortable retirement at the end of the road. That...

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Robert Drago

Environmental Health Health Care Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave

July 14, 2010

Many of our employers and coworkers remain woefully ignorant about breastfeeding; without realizing it, they put us in situations that can be thoroughly humiliating.

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Katrina Alcorn

Open Flexible Work

June 8, 2010

A recent article on The Bump highlighted the 10 Biggest New Mom Surprises (and How to Deal) . Amidst noisy poop and bad breastfeeding experiences they mentioned this nugget: "Going back to work is hard." This is one of the top 10 surprises? Really? I have not yet met a single mom who is thinking...

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Sharon Meers

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Health Care Open Flexible Work

June 2, 2010

Working mothers are not crackheads. Having children is not just another lifestyle choice. If we want to keep this little human experiment going, then we need a sizable chunk of the population to keep having children.

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Katrina Alcorn

Open Flexible Work

May 18, 2010

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org New data from the Pew Research Center reveal some surprising changes in the decisions women make about marriage and family. Over the past 20 years, non-Hispanic white women had fewer...

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Valerie Young

Paid Sick Days Health Care Open Flexible Work

April 9, 2010

For six years, I "balanced" a demanding job, a commute, and raising young children. All things considered, I thought I was managing really well until just before my last child turned one year old. Then, the stress and exhaustion I'd been holding at bay engulfed me. I could barely get out of bed, or eat, or think.

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Katrina Alcorn

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

April 6, 2010

The White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility has generated an energetic buzz in work family advocacy circles across the nation. As a longtime advocate for family friendly workplaces, I am thrilled by First Lady Michelle Obama and President Barack Obama's keen interest and commitment to build and...

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Netsy Firestein