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State and Local Action on Paid Sick Days
In 2006, San Francisco became the first locality in the nation to guarantee access to earned paid sick days. In 2008, the District of Columbia and Milwaukee passed paid sick days standards that included paid “safe” days for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault and stalking.
Paid Sick Days Lead to Cost Savings for All
In addition to promoting a healthy workforce and community, paid sick days can save employers, taxpayers and families money. Yet, two in five private sector workers can’t earn the basic paid sick time they need to care for themselves and their families when they are ill.
Healthy Families Act Coalition Sign-On Letter to Members of Congress
We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to support the Healthy Families Act (H.R.1286/S.631), a common sense bill that would allow workers to earn up to seven paid sick days a year to recover from short-term illnesses like the flu, access preventive care, care for a sick family member or seek assistance related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. Establishing a national paid sick days standard will help make businesses and governments more efficient while giving working families more financial stability — leading to a stronger economy for all.
Using Health Care Well: Briefing Paper for Policymakers
How Workplace Leave Policies Support National Health Care Transformation Policymakers, health care systems and providers, and employers are working to promote the effective and efficient use of health care services and reduce overall health care costs. Reimagining and reshaping health care through delivery system reforms and quality improvements are key components of health care transformation.
Using Health Care Well: Briefing Paper for Employers
How Workplace Leave Policies Support National Health Care Transformation Employers, health care providers and policymakers are pursuing improvements in health care services and delivery while seeking to reduce health care costs. Reimagining and reshaping health care through delivery system innovations and quality improvements are key components of health care transformation.
Using Health Care Well: Briefing Paper for Health Care Providers
How Workplace Leave Policies Support National Health Care Transformation Health care providers and systems, policymakers and purchasers are working to promote the effective and efficient use of health care services, improve quality, and reduce overall health care costs. Reimagining and reshaping health care through delivery system reforms and quality improvements are key components of health care transformation.
Using Health Care Well: Strategy Memo for Advocates
Connecting Workplace Leave Policies to National Health Care Transformation The National Partnership for Women & Families conducted a series of interviews with stakeholders from the private, nonprofit and public sectors to understand whether emerging trends in United States health care policies provided new openings for advancing workplace leave policies. This research was designed to investigate opportunities to tie workers’ access to workplace leave for their own health needs and the health needs of their loved ones (earned paid sick days and paid family and medical leave) to government, provider and employer efforts to improve health care utilization and delivery systems, promote prevention and wellness, improve caregiver engagement and reduce health care spending.
Senate Bill for the Healthy Families Act in the 113th Congress
A BILL To allow Americans to earn paid sick time so that they can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.
National Partnership for Women and Families 2012 Election Eve/Night Omnibus Nationwide Poll Results
How important is it to you that Congress and the President consider new laws to help keep working families economically secure, including ensuring workers the right to earn paid sick days and creating a system of family and medical leave insurance – very important, somewhat important, not too important, or not important at all?
Women of Color Need a Paid Sick Days Standard
Every day, millions of workers in the United States are forced to jeopardize their wages and their jobs when they become sick or need to care for a sick child or loved one. For women – and particularly for women of color – the inability to earn paid sick days can have devastating consequences.
Paid Sick Days: Good for Business, Good for Workers
Businesses benefit when their employees have access to paid sick days. When sick workers are able to stay home, the spread of disease slows and workplaces are both healthier and more productive. Plus, workers recover faster from illness and obtain timely medical care – enabling them to get back to work sooner and holding down health care costs.
Paid Sick Days Are Necessary To Manage Chronic Illness
Nearly one in two people in the United States have a chronic medical condition that requires regular care1 – and chronic conditions are becoming more prevalent. At the same time, more than 40 million U.S. workers don’t have access to paid sick days to recover from illness, care for a sick family member, or manage chronic illnesses.
Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence Need Paid “Safe Days”
In the United States, domestic violence results in an estimated 1,200 deaths and two million injuries among women – and nearly 600,000 injuries among men – annually. In 2007, 248,300 individuals were raped or sexually assaulted. And approximately one million women and 371,000 men are stalked each year.
Expecting Better: A State-by-State Analysis of Laws That Help New Parents
Seven years ago, in 2005, the National Partnership for Women & Families published the first edition of Expecting Better, a comprehensive review of federal and state laws that help new and expecting parents take leave when a child arrives. Today, in this second edition of that report, there are signs of progress.
Healthy Families Act Coalition Sign-On Letter to Members of Congress
We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to support the Healthy Families Act (H.R. 1876/ S. 984), a common sense piece of legislation that would allow workers to earn up to seven paid sick days a year to recover from short term illnesses like the flu, to care for a sick family member, or to seek assistance related to domestic violence, sexual assault or stalking. A national paid sick days standard would help working families meet their health and financial needs, while boosting business productivity and improving worker retention.
Building Better Workplaces for Family Caregivers
Millions of Americans who are elderly, disabled, or chronically ill rely on family caregivers, as do our nation’s children. Many of these family caregivers are struggling to manage both their caregiving responsibilities and the jobs they need to support their families.
111th Congress: Work and Family Agenda
The 111th Congress Work and Family Agenda focuses on three areas: 1. Guaranteeing workers paid sick days for short-term, common illnesses; 2. Guaranteeing workers paid family and medical leave to care for longer-term, serious health conditions and to bond with new children; and 3. Correcting and expanding the FMLA to cover more workers.
Senate Bill for the Healthy Families Act in the 108th Congress
A bill to provide for paid sick leave to ensure that Americans can address their own health needs and the health needs of their families.
Paid Sick Days Survey
The following results are from a survey given to 500 Connecticut voters in response to paid sick days.
Paid Sick Days: Attitudes and Experiences
Except in a few localities, employers are not required by law to provide paid sick days for workers. But most Americans believe that paid sick days should be a worker's right guaranteed by the government.
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