Paid Sick Days

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

Paid Sick Days Realistic & Fair Wages

April 5, 2010

Re-posted from Working Mother Magazine's Blog (see link at bottom) National Pay Equity Day will be held on April 20, 2010. While paid sick days are important for all workers, this benefit is even more important to working women and working mothers who typically are the main caregivers of their...

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Michelle Noehren

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Health Care Family Economic Security Open Flexible Work

April 2, 2010

"Many folks don't have access to any kind of family leave policies whatsoever, no flexible working arrangements, many people don't even have a paid sick day. So they are struggling…scrambling to make things work…As we all know, here today, it just doesn't have to be that way. It doesn't have to be...

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Katie Bethell

Paid Sick Days Health Care Family Economic Security

March 11, 2010

When Ashley's son started going to child care, he started bringing home more than macaroni art and cute little scribble pictures. He also brought home colds, the flu, pink eye, and a weird unidentifiable rash -- all things that meant Ashley needed to miss work to care for him. "I didn't realize...

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Katie Bethell

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

February 10, 2010

For generations, our country has been free-riding on families. Our economy is built on the invisible and free labor of millions--many of them women--who provide essential care to their families, whether it is the education and socialization of the next generation of workers or the comfort and care...

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Phoebe Taubman

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

January 21, 2010

We work long hours. We work multiple jobs. We can barely afford healthcare, or we’re doing without. We’re stitching together childcare, or we’re sending our kids to school with H1N1. We exert ourselves to be good spouses, sons and daughters, parents, members of our community, friends - in snatched...

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Gloria Pan

Paid Sick Days

January 19, 2010

Braving the snow to vote in Massachusetts? Tell us about it!

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Katie Bethell

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days

December 18, 2009

From Your (Wo)manInWashington blog MOTHERS changing the conversation @ www.MothersOughtToHaveEqualRights.org I've written here before about Jody Heymann's work in Raising the Global Floor: Dismantling the Myth that We Can't Afford Good Working Conditions for Everyone . The only reason we don't have...

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Valerie Young

Paid Sick Days

December 13, 2009

If you shop at Wal-Mart to finish up that last bit of holiday shopping this week, you may be coming home with more than a good deal--you might be exposed to contagious illnesses like colds and the flu.

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Katie Bethell