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Losing Ground: Unwarranted Credit Checks Create Barriers to Employment for Women
Research clearly shows that there is no connection between credit information and job performance or turnover, yet employers across the country run credit checks as part of their hiring processes. This creates unnecessary and harmful obstacles for women seeking gainful employment to support their families, pay their bills and pull themselves out of debt.
Ballot Initiatives in 2012: Putting Women’s Health and Rights Up For a Vote
Ballot initiatives can be powerful policy-making tools that raise community-specific issues and allow citizens to take democracy into their own hands. In recent years, however, they have also been a means to push an extreme agenda that would undermine women’s health and reproductive rights.
Paycheck Fairness Act Fact Sheet
Enactment of the Paycheck Fairness Act would be a critical step forward in the fight for fair pay for women. Women working full time are paid only 77 cents for every dollar paid to men.
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.
Amicus Brief: Maetta Vance v. Ball State University
On Writ of Certiorari To the United States Court of Appeals For the Seventh Circuit ________ BRIEF OF NATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOR WOMEN & FAMILIES, ET AL., AS AMICI CURIAE IN SUPPORT OF PETITIONER
National Partnership Comments to DOL on Military Leave Provisions of the FMLA
On behalf of the National Partnership for Women & Families, the National Military Family Association and the undersigned organizations, we thank you for the opportunity to respond to the Department of Labor’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking relating to legislative expansions of the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Coalition for Quality Maternity Care Letter Endorsing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Dear Representative Nadler: On behalf of the Coalition for Quality Maternity Care (CQMC), a coalition of national professional, consumer, and human rights organizations that promote high quality maternity care for all women and newborns, we write to thank you for your efforts to address pregnancy discrimination and promote healthy pregnancies by championing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (H.R.5647). The CQMC is proud to endorse this legislation that would promote the health and economic security of pregnant women, their babies, and their families.
Letter to Congress from the U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce, in support of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
The U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce is the leading advocate on women's economic issues. Our members - both business owners and careerists - respect the needs of women to support themselves and their families. Today, more than ever, it is important that women workers have work environments where they can remain productive and earning income for their families.
Recommendations for Calculating Health Insurers’ Medical Loss Ratio (August 2010)
Under the Affordable Care Act, health plans are required to report on the percentage of premium dollars spent on clinical services and activities that improve health care quality (commonly referred to as the “Medical Loss Ratio”). Plans that do not meet a particular threshold (85% for plans in the large group market and 80% for plans in the individual and small group markets) must provide rebates to enrollees.
Protection Against Unreasonable Insurance Rate Hikes
In the decade before the Affordable Care Act (ACA) became law, the cost of health insurance rose at an alarming rate. Even as wages stagnated and inflation remained low, health insurance premiums skyrocketed: in 2009, the average American could expect to pay more than twice as much for health coverage as she did 10 years earlier.
Fact Sheet: The Pregnant Workers Fairness Act
Despite existing protections against discrimination, pregnant workers in this country still face discrimination every day. Pregnant workers are forced out of their jobs and denied reasonable accommodations that would enable them to continue working and supporting their families.
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”
FACT SHEET | On the need for the country’s workplace policies to provide domestic and sexual violence survivors the support and job protection they need to recover – through a paid sick and safe days standard.
Benefits of the Medical Loss Ratio Rules for Women
Before passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), insurance companies were free to spend large portions of consumer premiums on administrative costs and profits – rather than on health care. Thanks to the ACA, women are now getting more insurance coverage for their dollar as new rules require insurers to spend at least 80 percent of premiums on patients.
HCR Health Reform is Making a Difference in Women
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) is the greatest advance for women’s health in a generation. It’s already improving the lives of millions of women and families, and will get even better with time.
Telemedicine: Improving Women’s Access to Health Care Through Innovation
Telemedicine is the delivery of any health care service or the transmission of health information using telecommunications technology. It includes videoconferencing, transmission of still images, patient portals, remote monitoring of vital signs, and more.
NPWF ANPRM Comments 6-19-2012
The National Partnership for Women & Families wants to again commend the Administration for the extraordinary effort that has gone into implementing the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to date. We have long advocated for reforms that ensure access to comprehensive, affordable health care for all women and their families, with an emphasis on the needs of lower-income women.
Appropriations Letter Opposing Riders and Cuts
We strongly urge you to support women’s reproductive health programs in the Fiscal Year 2013 (FY13) appropriations process and to reject any policy riders and funding cuts that would limit access to critical women’s health services.
Amicus Brief for the U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals: Maria Escriba v. Foster Poultry Farms, Inc.
The following amici submit this brief, with the consent of the parties, in support of Plaintiff-Appellant’s argument that an employee triggers the entitlement to job-protected leave under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) by notifying the employer of the need for time off to care for a family member with a serious medical condition.
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