Paid Family Leave

August 4, 2010

This July marked the sixth anniversary of the nation's first state law that provides comprehensive paid family leave. Passed in 2002 and in effect since July 2004, California's paid family leave insurance program provides most workers with six weeks a year of partial pay (55% of wages up to a...

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Joan C. Williams

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

August 2, 2010

For over two years, The Four Hour Work Week has been a national bestseller. Why? Because most of us resent feeling tethered to our jobs, and we know we could still do great work even if we had the ability to control our schedules and factor family needs into our day. But workers are completely on...

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Morra Aarons-Mele

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 Family Leave Health Care

July 21, 2010

I write, occasionally, about breastfeeding and bottlefeeding. I try, when I do, to present a balanced approach. It is challenging at times - to reconcile the choices I've made personally with my own children, with evidence-based studies and information that seems to come out regularly pointing to...

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Amie Newman

Paid Family Leave

July 19, 2010

Thanks to everyone who took my "Who clips the nails?" survey. The results are in! Below is a summary. I'm posting the detailed results, comments, and analysis now and throughout the week on my blog: workingmomsbreak.com . Overview Even though studies show fathers are changing more diapers and...

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Katrina Alcorn

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

Paid Family Leave Health Care

June 24, 2010

The American Academy of Pediatrics' prestigious journal, Pediatrics , recently released a cost analysis on breastfeeding . The bottom line: The United States could save $13 billion annually if 90 percent of families were able to comply with medical recommendations to breastfeed exclusively for six...

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Mary Olivella

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Paid Sick Days

June 17, 2010

As the first-time mother of an 8-month-old, I’m often concerned with making the world better for my daughter as she grows up. But every day, I also realize that I’m not in this struggle alone. Not only are there millions of moms out there trying to figure out how to balance work, a personal life,...

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Erin Cutraro