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From the Seattle Times: Tasha West-Baker can make you a latte, slice your lunch meat or make you a cake at Safeway. And she could make your entire family ill for days. West-Baker doesn’t get paid sick days from the grocery chain, where she has worked for seven years. She works four days a week [...]

Via Washington Policy Watch Whether we’re in a recession or economic boom, almost all employees have family obligations. From planning the birth of a new baby, to taking care of an elderly parent,  to dealing with long term medical emergencies, time away from work is sometimes required to care for yourself or your family. There’s [...]

Via Washington Policy Watch: Public News Service notes the irony: Over the weekend, working moms might have been treated to cards, flowers and even breakfast in bed. But today, life is back to normal – and for Washington women, that means earning less per hour on the job and receiving fewer workplace benefits than men. [...]

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 [...]

Richard Lillie, who works for the Department of Health in Washington state, writes into the News Tribune today about the recently kicked off campaign for paid sick days in Tacoma. This is a man who knows about foodborne illness from his job – and from his children and grandchildren.  As a professional, he knows the [...]