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Tag: Paid Sick Days

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November 8, 2021

Choosing Between My Career and a Chance at a Family

By Emily Waldron When my husband, Jason, and I started the in vitro fertilization (IVF) process, I thought I was prepared. I’d earned a master’s…
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August 5, 2021

This Is Our Moment

(WASHINGTON, D.C.) Yesterday, Carol Joyner, director of the Labor Project for Working Families at Family Values @ Work, joined House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi…
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June 21, 2021

Paid Leave Equity Matters

Paid family and medical leave (PFML) policies provide workers with partial wage replacement so that they can afford to take time to care for 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 1, 2021

How I Survived the Pandemic with My Job at FV@W

by Alexis Jackson, Development Manager at FV@W At the start of the pandemic, I was five months pregnant with a husband, an 8-year-old whose school…
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March 10, 2021

American Rescue Plan Will Deliver Urgent Relief

Recovery requires permanent policies like paid leave We applaud the Biden-Harris administration for their commitment to the emergency COVID needs of all workers. The American…
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February 1, 2021

Family Values @ Work Commends Biden-Harris Administration Appointment

Wendy Chun-Hoon to head Department of Labor’s Women’s Bureau (WASHINGTON, DC)––The Family Values @ Work network hailed the appointment of their former Executive Director, Wendy…
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January 27, 2021

Paid Sick Time Saves Lives, Jobs

New Wisconsin Study Affirms Importance of Public Policies COVID-19 continues to devastate Wisconsin and the country—but it didn’t have to be this way.  Twelve and…
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January 15, 2021

FV@W Statement on the Biden-Harris American Rescue Plan

Tonight we join with paid leave champions and organizers across the country in thanking President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President Elect Kamala Harris for including paid…
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January 13, 2021

The First 100 Days

This election season, we’ve seen voters and families say again and again that they need and want substantive change. They want commonsense policies that will…
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