“There’s definitely stigma that’s still involved,” said Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families. “Cultures where employers look less favorably, or employees think they’ll be looked on less favorably, if they take [parental] leave.”
In a letter to Postmaster General Megan J. Brennan, the Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights and the National Partnership for Women & Families said, “The Postal Service continues to maintain a legally indefensible position that allows for discriminatory treatment against its own employees.”
Too often the Texas Legislature inserts politics into the exam room. Both patients and providers suffer as a result. Unfortunately, Texas is not alone – a 2014 report by the National Partnership for Women & Families, “Bad Medicine: How a Political Agenda is Undermining Women’s Health Care,” finds that a majority of states have one or more laws like these.
“The proposed modification to Meaningful Use … is a startling and unwelcome departure from the administration’s commitment to healthcare transformation that produces higher value, more patient- and family-centered care,” Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families here, said in a statement.
(Statistics provided by the National Partnership for Women & Families)
“Paid sick days laws are or will soon be in place in 21 places across the country and 81 percent of voters say they want lawmakers to consider new laws like paid sick days,” the National Partnership for Women & Families said in a statement. “It is past time for action at the federal level.”
Paid sick days advocates from across the country got a boost from U.S. Senator Patty Murray today. Murray is the lead Senate sponsor of the Healthy Families Act and she championed the recent budget amendment that garnered bipartisan support for paid sick days. Today, she joined a national coalition call to talk about the issue.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Debra Ness, the president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, said that even with the deal, “trafficking survivors will still face unconscionable restrictions to accessing the reproductive health services they need.”
(Tweet courtesy of the National Partnership for Women & Families)
“Those who know about it are those who disproportionately work for employers who already do it,” says Vicki Shabo, a vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families. “That leaves out many lower-paid workers.”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, said that “this is the time, this is the moment” to pass federal legislation on paid sick leave.”
The suggested modification “is a startling and unwelcome departure,” said National Partnership for Women & Families President Debra L. Ness, in a statement. “All of us who care about achieving the ‘Triple Aim’ – better care, better health and lower costs – know that success depends on patients being equal and engaged partners, true co-creators, of their health and their care. This rule signals a turn in precisely the wrong direction.”
Closing out a week of attention to families’ economic security, the Obama administration paid special tribute yesterday to state and local “champions of change” who are making a real difference in communities and workplaces across the country. Among them were several paid sick days advocates whose dedication and victories are paving the way for national level progress.
A coalition of organizations, coordinated by the National Partnership for Women & Families and Consumer Partnership for eHealth, is mounting a coordinated campaign to fight back, through social media and responses in the government regulatory process. The symbol, the “badge,” so to speak, is “No MU Without Me.”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Debra L. Ness, president of Washington, D.C.-based National Partnership for Women & Families, said in a statement that the revision of the rule is a “dramatic retreat from essential, ongoing efforts to make patients and their families equal partners in improving health through shared information, understanding and decisionmaking.” She urged CMS to reconsider.
Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership of Women & Families, decried the rule as a “startling and unwelcome departure from the administration’s commitment to health care transformation that produces higher value, more patient- and family-centered care.”
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families