Tag: family medical leave
February 5, 2025
FMLA Anniversary Statement
On the anniversary of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), we celebrate a landmark law that has provided millions of workers with the job-protected…
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December 17, 2024
FV@W Reacts to Latest Announcement from House Bipartisan Paid Leave Working Group
Family Values @ Work and our national network of partners have worked together for the past 20 plus years for comprehensive paid family and medical…
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November 6, 2024
FV@W Doubles Down on Commitment to Care Movement Following the Presidential Election Results
Family Values @ Work and our Network remain steadfast in our more than 20-year commitment to realizing paid family and medical leave, paid sick and…
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June 15, 2021
Listening to Workers
Family Values @ Work’s state partners have won major policy advances for working families, including paid family and medical leave, paid sick and safe days,…
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June 28, 2018
Family Values @ Work Applauds MA Governor Baker’s Signing of Paid Leave Bill
Statement by Co-Directors Ellen Bravo and Wendy Chun-Hoon “On behalf of the Family Values @ Work network, we congratulate Raise Up Massachusetts and all their…
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June 13, 2018
This Father’s Day, Give Dad Paid Time with the Family
As Father’s Day approaches, it’s important to reflect on the sometimes-overlooked contributions fathers and father figures make to their families – and to recognize how…
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August 1, 2017
Time to Care for All of Us
On August 5, 1993, the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA), a law 9 years in the making, took effect. The FMLA brought huge change…
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June 16, 2017
Value All Care and Every Family
You seldom see legislators tear up as they argue for a piece of legislation. But that’s what happened recently when Connecticut state senators made the…
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May 23, 2017
Trump’s Paid Leave Proposal Fails to Deliver for Working Families
Statement from Family Values @ Work The country urgently needs and wants a paid leave program. The mention of paid family leave in the president's…
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February 16, 2017
Victory for DC Paid Leave Campaign!
“We congratulate the DC Paid Leave Campaign, especially Jews United for Justice, for more than two years of activism to make DC the fifth location…
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