Author: Family Values @ Work
October 18, 2012
Proposed Miami-Dade Ordinance Would Require Sick Leave for Employees
A proposed Dade ordinance would allow all employees to earn paid sick time, a benefit 45 percent of local workers and 88 percent of restaurant…
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October 17, 2012
Miami Community Leaders Call for Earned Sick Time
With the support of more than 40 community organizations, the Miami-Dade Coalition for Healthy Families and Workplaces today kicked off its campaign to guarantee that…
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October 17, 2012
COMMUNITY LEADERS CALL FOR EARNED SICK TIME IN MIAMI-DADE
Earned Sick Time Strengthens Economic Security for Working Families, Saves Businesses Money, Boosts Economic Recovery MIAMI, FL—Building off the national momentum for family-friendly economic policies…
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October 11, 2012
Activists sick of working while sick
Christine Stancliff, a longtime janitor at Portland International Airport, called in sick last January when she thought she had a stomach flu, but her boss…
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October 8, 2012
Campaigning for Care
Back in 2004, a presidential candidate acknowledged the changing organization of our care economy. “In one of the most dramatic shifts our society has seen,”…
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October 5, 2012
Speaker Quinn: Listen to the Children
Who are the best people to deliver 50,000 signatures on a petition about paid sick days to City Hall? Kids, of course. Babies in strollers,…
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October 3, 2012
The Right to Care: State’s Paid Family Leave Turns 10
When we found out we were expecting twins in 2005, my husband was a teacher and I worked for a small non-profit. We were…
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October 3, 2012
Calling on the candidates to debate real family issues
Recently a group of about two dozen care-giving advocates, many of them children’s advocates too, gathered in a conference overlooking K Street to brainstorm about…
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September 26, 2012
New Website Exposes NFIB as N-FIB
Activists across the country working to advance earned time laws are all-too-familiar with the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) and its dishonest tactics to…
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September 18, 2012
Decision for Darden: Bad Working Conditions are Unsustainable
Can a restaurant claim to value sustainability while maintaining unsustainable conditions for its workers? Today the Restaurant Opportunities Centers (ROC) United answered a resounding, ‘No.’…
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