Press Releases
April 15, 2013
Support grows for legislation requiring paid sick leave
A nearly decade-long effort to require Massachusetts employers to offer paid sick days is gaining momentum as lawmakers pass similar proposals across the country. At…
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April 9, 2013
Equal Pay Isn’t Enough; Let’s Also Make It Fair
(WOMENSENEWS)-- On April 9 we mark the day that women's earnings catch up to the amount men earned in the previous year. It's a day…
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April 2, 2013
Lean In, Dad
I happen to be an educated young woman who loves her job, sometimes gushingly, occasionally annoyingly. And yet, even in this enlightened age, I’ve had…
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April 2, 2013
Incentives for Men, to Help Women to Work
As I wrote in an article appearing this week in The New York Times Magazine, if you want women to be bigger participants in the…
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April 2, 2013
Lack of paid sick leave is unhealthy for America
Ian Rizzio was a 24-year-old mechanical engineering student in Portland, Oregon, managing a sandwich shop to pay his tuition. One day, he woke up sick,…
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April 1, 2013
Paid Sick Leave in San Francisco, Before and After the Fight to Pass It
Workers in many urban areas have recently tangled with unsupportive business leaders and politicians to enact PSLOs. Just last week in New York, a paid…
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March 29, 2013
New York’s Paid Sick Leave Bill May Serve As Model For U.S.
NEW YORK -- When Juana Alvarez's 14-year-old daughter contracted a blood infection five years ago, Alvarez took her daughter to the hospital, leaving her newborn…
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March 29, 2013
NYC deal gives juice to national paid sick leave campaign
New York City’s multi-year battle over paid sick leave may soon be at an end. On Thursday night, activists and city council members in America’s…
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March 29, 2013
Deal Reached to Force Paid Sick Leave in New York City
New York City is poised to mandate that thousands of companies provide paid time off for sick employees, bolstering a national movement that has been…
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March 29, 2013
Paid sick leave: The next liberal litmus test?
There’s a new must-support issue for ambitious Democrats across the nation: paid sick leave. And if you want to see how important it has become,…
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