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October 10, 2013

San Francisco Mayor Signs Historic Workplace Flexibility Law

by Jenya Cassidy San Francisco, a city of firsts, just became the first municipality in the country to pass a law providing working parents and caregivers the…
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October 9, 2013

Celebrating FMLA in Rhode Island with Two Great Champions

By Ellen Bravo Recently I had the honor of celebrating two decades of the Family and Medical Leave Act with Sen. Chris Dodd, the bill’s…
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October 9, 2013

New York Hosts Nancy Pelosi

By Martha Baker What a great feeling when a national leader comes to your city and congratulates you on winning paid sick days – and…
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September 16, 2013

Celebrating Netsy Firestein, a Leader in Paid Family Leave

Friends of Netsy Firestein wanted to honor her work with something beautiful and enduring, like the impact of her decades of organizing. So we commissioned…
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September 15, 2013

California Shows Leadership on Paid Family Leave Once Again

by Matt James, President and Co-Founder, The Next Generation Recently, we celebrated the passage of California SB 770 (Jackson) in the California Assembly, and will…
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August 30, 2013

Stop Brooding and Organize!

        By Carol Joyner America’s Labor Day was established as a federal holiday in 1894.  It was signed into law by Grover…
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August 2, 2013

Happy Birthday FMLA!

At some point, nearly everyone needs time to recover from a serious illness or care for a sick loved one or new child. But the…
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July 25, 2013

Raise Up Massachusetts: Ready to Put Earned Sick Time on the Ballot

They stood in front of Walmart’s, city halls and the State House in a dozen cities across Massachusetts July 24, representing scores of organizations, all…
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July 24, 2013

Governor Chafee signs Rhode Island Temporary Caregivers Insurance into law!

by Wendy Chun-Hoon Rhode Island celebrated yesterday as Governor Lincoln Chafee signed Temporary Caregivers Insurance (TCI) into law.  Families, lawmakers, advocates and TV crews packed…
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July 19, 2013

When Women Succeed, America Succeeds

by Wendy Chun-Hoon What do a small businesswoman from Iowa, a daughter caring for her father in Massachusetts, a mom with a four-year-old daughter plus…
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