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Via Washington Policy Watch: The Wall Street Journal examines a budgetary boxing match between opponents and advocates of legislation to ensure New York City workers can earn paid sick days on the job. The question: How much will it cost? In one corner: the New York City Chamber of Commerce, which says the measure will [...]

Via Washington Policy Watch: When citizen delegates from Washington State converged in Washington DC to urge their representatives to take action on paid family leave and paid sick days, Selena Allen of Tacoma (whose story EOI has profiled before), and EOI Policy Director Marilyn Watkins were interviewed by NPR reporter Jennifer Ludden: For millions of [...]

A recent study (Seattle Times report) from the Journal of Pediatrics finds that the lives of nearly 900 infants – and billions of dollars in health care costs – could be saved if 90% of U.S. women breastfed their babies for the first 6 months of their life. Government guidelines recommend babies receive only breast [...]

Yesterday, Family Values @ Work executive director, Ellen Bravo, posted her reflections on attending the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility. You can read more about what happened at the forum on the White House website, as well as watch a video of some of the comments by President Obama and the First Lady. At [...]

A view from the White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility By Ellen Bravo As executive director of the Family Values @ Work consortium, I was one of the 100 people invited to participate in yesterday’s White House Forum on Workplace Flexibility. Anyone familiar with workplace change knows what a difference it makes in a company [...]

The Family Values @ Work Consortium, a network of 14 state coalitions working on policies such as paid sick days and affordable family leave, applauds the inclusion of expanded caregiving time for military families in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), signed yesterday by President Obama. “This is the first of many wins we expect [...]

Super-sized germs moved among New Yorkers on Monday … not to spread disease, but a simple message: When almost half of the workers in New York don’t receive paid sick days, it’s a public health hazard. They had their moment in the sun at Union Square as part of a costume contest to select the [...]

On October 7, 2009,  ABC World News aired a story about the need for paid sick days during the H1N1 epidemic. It features interviews with Linda Meric at 9to5 and Deborah Leff at the Public Welfare Foundation. Here’s a link to the video and the transcript: Unpaid Sick Days Leave Parents With Tough Choices During [...]

On October 7, 2009, the Massachusetts Paid Leave Coalition released the Health Impact Assessment (HIA) of Paid Sick Days in Massachusetts, produced by Human Impact Partners and funded in part by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation. Drawing on data from various government offices and from focus groups around the state, the HIA concludes [...]

Find out about the campaign for paid sick days in Milwaukee. Below is a link to a press release regarding a recent study showing that paid sick days will save local employers millions and protect public health. Paid Sick Days in Milwaukee Press Release