North Carolina

The North Carolina Families Care Campaign is a growing statewide coalition of organizations and individuals who are leading the effort to make North Carolina more family-friendly. Working together, community, religious, labor, healthcare, professional, and family groups are advocating for state policy change that ensure that no workers have to make the difficult choice of caring for an ill family member or risking a day’s pay or even a job.

Since 2007, the NC Families Care Campaign has been working to push the Healthy Families and Healthy Workplaces Act, which would provide all North Carolina workers with a minimum number of paid sick days. As a result of sustained advocacy, the campaign was successful in spurring the establishment of the first legislative commission, the Joint Select Committee on Work & Family Balance, to examine family-friendly workplace policies. More recently, the campaign introduced, for the first time in North Carolina, legislation to expand the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) at the state level so that it’s more accessible to FMLA-eligible employees. Currently, the campaign is in the midst of conducting Know Your Rights trainings across North Carolina to grow the movement for family values at work in the Tar Heel state.