“On the one hand, you have all of our top officials saying, ‘Do the responsible thing. If you’re sick, stay home,'” says Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, a Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group that is pushing for paid sick leave laws.
The spotlight of the Great Recession has been properly on the nearly 10 percent of workers who are unemployed. But there has been far less said about the collateral damage on the 90 percent who “still have a job” but are looking at the empty seats. …
MiamiHerald.com Such risk has become too high for families that depend on women for economic security, says Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women … and …
“By the time you left Sen. Kennedy’s house, he knew everything that you knew,” says women’s rights advocate Judith Lichtman. “He had truly drained your brain.”
Christine Bechtel, a committee member from the National Partnership for Women & Families, suggested interoperability could be fostered by the exchange of scanned patient records in the Portable Document Format, better known as PDF. “This would facilitate the movement of data … by getting a piece of paper to go with the patient” in an electronic format, she said.
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“The National Partnership for Women and Families, an advocacy group based in Washington, has been pressing for a federal Healthy Families Act, which would guarantee seven paid sick days per year for workers at businesses with 15 or more employees, to be used to recover from routine illness, care for a sick family member, or seek services to recover from domestic violence.”
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Statement of Debra L. Ness, President National Partnership for Women & Families
The National Partnership for Women & Families reviewed a sampling of these claims and found that complaints filed by women of color and those working in industries dominated by female …
Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, called the Court’s decision “disgraceful, unfair, and a terrible blow to the equal …
The decision couldn’t come at a worse time, said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. “In the current economic climate, women and their families …
The decision couldn’t come at a worse time, said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families. “In the current economic climate, women and their families cannot afford to …
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President National Partnership for Women & Families
RH Reality Check, DC By Marilyn Keefe, National Partnership for Women & Families It’s here – President Obama’s much anticipated (at least among Washington …
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Debra Ness with the National Partnership for Women and Families is quoted in the report as stating of the issue, “The problem has really come into sharp relief the past few …
“The problem has really come into sharp relief the past few days,” said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, which has long pushed for paid sick leave. “Many people don’t even realize that almost half the private sector — 48 percent — has no sick days, not even a single one.”
“The problem has really come into sharp relief the past few days,” said Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, which has long …
Nearly half of private sector workers in the United States don’t have a single paid sick day, said Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for …