Only 50% of first-time mothers get any paid leave at all after their child is born, “and that paid leave comes from cobbling together vacation, sick, disability, personal and any designated maternity leave,” says Judith Lichtman, senior adviser for the organization.
Critics – including…the National Partnership for Women and Families – complain that despite Republican claims to the contrary the measure lacks adequate enforcement.
In 2006, San Francisco became the first city to required companies to provide paid sick days, according to the National Partnership for Women and Families.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
More than 150 leading women’s, worker and civil rights organizations will send a letter to the U.S. House of Representatives today in opposition to H.R. 1406 – the so-called Working Families Flexibility Act – which the House is set to vote on this...
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Judith Lichtman, senior adviser to the National Partnership for Women and Families, argued the public sector’s option was created in 1985 to save federal, state and local governments money, not to offer workers more flexibility. Most private-sector workers, she added, lack the union and civil service protections that give government employees leverage in the arrangement.
Judith L. Lichtman, the organization’s senior advisor, testified against the bill before the House Committee on Education and the Workforce, saying, “it would leave workers with neither pay nor time” and “magnifies the power imbalance between employer and employee.”
The Campaign for Better Care and the Consumer Partnership for eHealth have submitted joint comments responding to a request for information on how the federal government could advance interoperability and health data exchange efforts…
By broader U.S. standards, though, Yahoo is in an elite group, said Vicki Shabo, director of work and family programs at the National Partnership for Women & Families in Washington. Only 11 percent of private-sector workers have access to paid family leave, she said.
“We are particularly concerned about the impact for low-wage workers, those who may be more vulnerable in the workplace and may be less aware of their rights or less likely to exercise their rights,” said Crawford.
“We think it is a completely disingenuous proposal that will strip people of both the money and the flexibility of time off they need,” said Vicki Shabo, director of work and family programs for the National Partnership.
“I think this should be a no-brainer. There’s no rational reason to deny women in the Peace Corps coverage,” said Andrea Friedman, a reproductive health director at the National Partnership for Women and Families, an advocacy group.
“It should be called the Employer Flexibility Act, because at every turn here, the employer gets to decide,” said Judith Lichtman, senior adviser for the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Statement of Judith L. Lichtman, Senior Advisor, National Partnership for Women & Families
‘This legislation is based on smoke and mirrors,” said National Partnership for Women and Families senior adviser Judith Lichtman in her testimony before the committee.
This Equal Pay Day, a new analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data from the National Partnership for Women & Families reminds us that women in every corner of the country continue to suffer from a gender-based wage gap.
New York was seen as a “tipping point,” says Debra L. Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, which has been leading campaigns supporting their passage.
“We are the hub of both coordination and activity on this,” said Vicki Shabo, the group’s director of work and family programs. “We help to connect grass-roots and national organizations.”
“African-American women and Latinas fare worse, being paid 64 cents and just 55 cents, respectively, for every dollar paid to white, non-Hispanic men,” added Ness.
