Paid Sick Days

September 3, 2014

California has long led the way in establishing family friendly workplace policies, from enacting the nation's first paid leave program in 2002, to the nation's first citywide paid sick days law in San Francisco in 2007. Last week, the state legislature made further history by passing a bill that would allow around 6.5 million additional California workers to earn paid sick days. The bill's next stop is Governor Jerry Brown's desk and the great news is that he has already voiced his support for the bill!

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Sara Alcid

Paid Sick Days

August 22, 2014

To read this blog post in English, click here . Como Presidente del Sindicato de Trabajadores de New York del AFL-CIO , represento a más de 1,3 millones de trabajadores de muchas industrias y profesiones en el sector privado, público y en asociaciones de construcción. Muchos de estos trabajadores...

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Vincent Alvarez

Paid Sick Days

August 22, 2014

To read this blog post in English, click here . Tener días de enfermedad pagados es importante para mí como madre. Soy una madre soltera que siempre recibe esas llamadas angustiosas de la escuela cuando mi hijo está enfermo: “Tu hijo esta enfermo, necesitas recogerlo inmediatamente.” Mi hijo tiene...

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Charlie Rose

Paid Sick Days

August 21, 2014

Como una de 11 hijos en una familia de inmigrantes agricultores, trabajé en las granjas de la valle central en California durante condiciones muy duras en los años 50 y 60, antes de que la movilización de Cesar Chávez nos ayudará. Estar enferma o herida o mostrar alguna señal de síntomas de...

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Maria Elena Durazo

Paid Sick Days

August 21, 2014

Mi nombre es Luz Amelia Arevalo, y soy una trabajadora doméstica profesional en el área de Los Ángeles, California. Debido a la necesidad económica, mi propia familia y nietos viven muy lejos. Yo cuido a los hijos de mis jefes, y los amo tanto como amo a mis propios nietos. Hay muchas mujeres como...

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Luz Amelia Arevalo

Paid Sick Days

August 21, 2014

Las madres no deberían de escoger entre sus trabajos y la salud de sus familias. Pero frecuentemente, compañías obligan a las mujeres tomar esta decisión. Lo sé porque me pasó a mí. Estuve embarazada con mi segundo hijo cuando trabajaba para un centro de llamadas de T-Mobile en Nashville, Tennessee...

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Kristi Rifkin

Family Economic Security MomsVote Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

August 13, 2014

The following post, with minor modifications, was first featured in the Honolulu Star Advertiser as an op-ed last week, right before Hawaii’s state primary. The first sentence of the editorial read: " As this primary season comes to an end.. ." But the primary season did not end on Saturday as...

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Shay Chan Hodges

Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Politics & Policy

August 4, 2014

Could it be that workers whose employers offer leave benefits actually end up getting sick less often because they are happier? Senator Al Franken (D-MN), tongue firmly in cheek, proposed this “radical” idea at a hearing on paid leave held by the Senate Health Economic Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee’s Subcommittee on Children and Families.

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Liz Ben-Ishai

Families & The Federal Budget Family Economic Security Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

July 21, 2014

The White House Summit on working families was last month, but we’re still riding the high of the momentum and energy cultivated at such a groundbreaking event. The fact that our nation’s leaders dedicated an entire day to issues that MomsRising members have been working on since we were founded in 2006 is huge.

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Sara Alcid

Open Flexible Work Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

July 15, 2014

I became aware of the huge bias against mothers in hiring, wages and advancement over a decade ago. In response I co-founded MomsRising.org with Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner. As I learned more and more about work that was compatible with parenthood it became clear that all the practices that are good...

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