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Tag: Paid Sick Days

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January 31, 2012

Business Leaders Make the Case for Paid Sick Days

Leaders in the small business community are increasingly voicing their support for paid sick days. A new brochure captures their voices making the case for…
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January 25, 2012

NYC Coalition Relaunches Paid Sick Days Campaign

by Martha Baker More than 100 people gathered on the steps of City Hall in New York January 18 to hear labor leaders, health providers,…
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January 10, 2012

9to5 Milwaukee Files Ethics Complaint Against Supreme Court Justice

The group that led the fight for paid sick days in Milwaukee has filed an ethics charge against a Wisconsin Supreme Court justice, after learning…
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January 6, 2012

NY Labor Leader Calls Paid Sick Days a Human Right

This article by George Gresham, President, 1199SEIU, appeared today in the New York Amsterdam News: Late last year, our billionaire mayor, Michael Bloomberg, summoned the…
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January 4, 2012

Cape Cod Senator’s Real-World Case for Paid Sick Days

Dan Wolf is a small business owner, a legislative leader in Massachusetts, and a believer in paid sick days. In an op ed in the…
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January 4, 2012

Connecticut Workers Welcome Paid Sick Days

This time last year, Desiree Rosado, a school bus driver in Groton, Connecticut, was dreading flu season. "Working without paid sick days, you're always worried…
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December 15, 2011

Roadmap for Working Families in North Carolina

With high unemployment and a severe jobs shortfall increasingly threatening the economic security of North Carolina’s working families, it is imperative that state leaders develop…
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October 13, 2011

Philadelphia City Council Approves Paid Sick Days

The Philadelphia city council voted 15-2 in favor of an amended living wage policy that will now require businesses that have contracts with or receive…
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September 12, 2011

Seattle wins paid sick days

SEATTLE | With an 8-1 vote, the Seattle City Council passed a landmark ordinance to ensure workers in all but the city's smallest businesses can…
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September 5, 2011

Hepatitis Scare Highlights Need for Paid Sick Days

The Labor Day edition of the Fayetteville (North Carolina) Observer included this great op-ed by Louisa Warren, a policy advocate with the NC Justice Center…
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