With a wide gap between the have’s and have-nots, conservatives and liberals agree that expanding paid family leave to all is crucial to the workplace.
Good jobs improve health and profits – The Star
Employers have seen a decrease in absenteeism, lower safety risks, as well as higher productivity rates at their workplaces as a result of providing fair wages, decent schedules and paid sick days to their employees.
Health, Human and Civil Rights Advocates Warn Trump HHS Will Weaken Health Law’s Nondiscrimination Provision
Groups Say HHS Decision Will Reverse Course on Combatting Discrimination in the Health Care System
‘Graham-Cassidy-Heller-Johnson: Another Health Care Repeal Bill That Would Devastate Women and Families’
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
‘Modest Yet Meaningful’ Progress on Fair Pay and Health Coverage, New Census Data Show, But Racial Disparities Persist and Threats Loom
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
In America, Parental Leave Is Still A Class Issue – Brides
With America being one of only four countries without guaranteed paid leave, many are left vulnerable to their employer’s leave policy. If you’re a part-time or retail worker, that’s likely to be less than generous—if it exists at all.
Media Briefing Call: Trump’s Threat to Obamacare’s Nondiscrimination Provision
While congressional Republicans are still trying to repeal the Affordable Care Act, the Trump administration is working to revise a provision of the law (Section 1557) that outlaws discrimination against sex and gender identity in federally funded health programs....
New School Year, Same Uncertainty for Parents Without Paid Sick Days – MomsRising – MomsRising
Vicki Shabo, vice president for workplace policies and strategies at the National Partnership for Women & Families, blogs about the importance of paid sick days for employed parents.
Ending DACA Is a ‘Mean-Spirited Attack on Young Immigrants’ Who Help Make Our Country Strong
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Push Launched Toward Requiring Austin Employers To Provide Paid Worker Sick Leave – Patch
[District 4 Councilman Greg] Casar noted the effort to require paid sick leave is no anomaly for Austin; more than 30 cities and seven state pave [sic] passed similar legislation.
Ending DACA Is a ‘Mean-Spirited Attack on Young Immigrants’ Who Help Make Our Country Strong
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Hundreds rally in Portland to support paid sick leave campaign – Press Herald
“Parents should not have to make that impossible decision of choosing between a paycheck and keeping their sick children home,” said Ina Demers, a member of the Maine Education Association.
Harvard researchers say this is the ideal parental leave policy – Motherly
If corporations want Millennials to apply for and stay in jobs while having kids, an ideal leave policy would grant parental leave to all employees welcoming a child.
‘A Brazen, Inexcusable Attempt to Undermine the ACA’
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Bringing parental leave benefits to more workers – Los Angeles Times
If they work for a company with fewer than 50 workers, their bosses are under no obligation to continue to pay their health care benefits during their absence or give them their jobs back when they return.
Ivanka Trump Backs White House Decision to Stop Obama’s Equal Pay Rule – Fortune – NKARULE –
“ Issuing a ‘review and stay’ of an equal pay initiative aimed at identifying and helping root out pay discrimination is a blatant attack by the Trump administration on fair pay for women and people of color,” Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, said in a statement.
Ivanka Trump Is Sometimes for Equal Pay. Today Isn’t One of Those Days. – Rewire – NKADAYS. –
“At a time when gender- and race-based wage gaps are punishing working people, families and our economy, identifying and addressing pay disparities should be a priority,” Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, said in a statement.
Trump Blocks Effort to Stop Wage Discrimination in ‘Blatant Attack on Fair Pay for Women and People of Color,’ Women’s Leader Says
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Mark Zuckerberg can take paid leave when his child is born, but most fathers can’t – t Magazine
Glacially, at a pace slower than the melting of the ice caps, we are moving toward an acceptance that fathers deserve to spend precious time with their newborn children.
The MLB Is Slowly Making Paternity Leave a Big League Conversation –
“Here’s a very American masculine institution of baseball that is communicating that babies are men’s work as well as women’s work, and we need to support them becoming a father,” says Claire M. Kamp Dush, an associate professor of family science at The Ohio State University.
