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March 30, 2012
Businesses split on paid sick days bill
March 27, 2012 BOSTON, Mass. (WWLP) - Workers advocates are urging Massachusetts lawmakers to advance legislation that would give employees up to seven earned sick…
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March 30, 2012
Mass. residents rally for seven paid sick days per year
Chanting “sick time now,” supporters of sick paid leave rallied on the steps of the Massachusetts State House on Tuesday in support of a bill…
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March 30, 2012
Employers, economists push for paid sick leave
March 27, 2012 Employers, workers, and economists rallied and lobbied at the State House in support of legislation that would offer sick leave to the…
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March 30, 2012
Now is the Time for Rebuild America Act
Family Values @ Work enthusiastically supports the Rebuild America Act introduced by Senator Tom Harkin. This legislation understands that our nation’s future depends on a…
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March 27, 2012
Leading Economists Support Paid Sick Days
March 27, 2012 Honorable Members of the General Court State House Boston, MA 02133 Dear Members of the General Court, In these tough economic…
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March 23, 2012
“It’s Really Moving!”
Ellen Bravo, Family Values @ Work Executive Director, recently spoke at the annual meeting of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Association of Social…
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March 23, 2012
Celebrate Second Anniversary of Affordable Care Act
Experts like to talk about cost-benefit analyses. Badly needed reforms to inefficient systems may seem to cost money, but often the benefits from that change…
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March 22, 2012
Sick time bill would protect jobs, workers
The Bay State Banner Shelly Runyon Nearly 1 million workers are without access to paid sick days in Massachusetts. When they or their children fall…
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March 22, 2012
Sick time bill would protect jobs, workers
March 22, 2012 Nearly 1 million workers are without access to paid sick days in Massachusetts. When they or their children fall ill, they are…
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March 22, 2012
Mass. lawmakers should pass sick-leave bill
Imagine this: You wake up with the flu and you feel awful. Or maybe your kid wakes up with a virus and she looks like…
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