“The distribution of those benefits are skewed towards higher income families, and really paltry for lower income families,” says Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families. “The overall package is really dismal for working families.”
As small-business owners just getting off the ground, we couldn’t be more supportive of the Duluth City Council enacting a strong earned-sick-and-safe-time ordinance.
Any company serious about addressing sexual harassment in the workplace should care about the women’s leadership gap. And anyone trying to close that gap must put paid time for caregiving at the top of their to-do list.
In addition to raising the minimum wage, initiating a new government insurance program called Family and Medical Leave Insurance, or FAMLI, would also help Vermonters to improve their ability to support their families.
In October 2017, the ASBC came out with their own research showing that companies who invested in promoting family-friendly benefits, flexibility, fair living wages, cultivated inclusion, engaged with communities, for example, could improve retention of quality employees, earn better results from contractors and vendors, and attract fast-growing numbers of consumers who want to buy from values-based organizations.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Zero Weeks, [Ky] Dickens’ fourth feature-length film, is a stark and poignant look at the consequences of inaction on paid leave in the U.S.
“This bill is a poorly disguised attempt to take away guaranteed sick days at a time when the evidence that paid sick days standards benefit working people and their families, businesses and communities, as well as our economy and our public health, is strong and growing,” National Partnership President Debra Ness said.
Many fathers who take on roles stereotypically reserved for mothers find themselves fighting the same battles working mothers have fought going back decades, including the legal ones: in December 2016, Carlson sued CVS, claiming it had violated federal family leave law and demanding back pay, damages and attorneys’ fees.
In comments submitted last night, the National Partnership for Women & Families calls on the Trump administration to rescind its interim final rules rolling back the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) guarantee of contraceptive coverage in health insurance because...
Sexual harassment “often involves an imbalance of power between a perpetrator and the person who is harassed,” said Sarah Fleisch Fink, director of workplace policy and senior counsel for the National Partnership.
The minimum wage in Washington will go up once again and all employees will be able to receive paid sick leave by the beginning of next year.
The question of whether parents should spend time bonding with their newborns was answered experimentally, through neuroscience and psychology. Likewise, the question of whether businesses and societies should provide paid parental leave is being answered experimentally, through an economic experiment in California.
“Men are doubling down on their daddy duties,” said Karyn Twaronite, global diversity and inclusiveness officer at Ernst & Young. “They want to have impact at home as well as at work.”
An overflow crowd cheered on Tuesday when the Morristown council voted against tweaking an ordinance that requires local employers to provide paid sick days to workers who earn them.
National Partnership President Debra Ness and Dr. Salil Deshpande, Chief Medical Officer at UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Texas, discuss five common pregnancy myths that, when taken as fact, could affect new mothers’ health and their pregnancy, and even prevent babies from having the best possible start in life.
Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families, says that this bill is only a drop in the bucket of support to businesses already taking the lead on this issue. The provision provides “a very small tax credit to businesses that voluntarily provide at least a minimal level, two weeks, of paid family or medical leave,” she said.
Less than 24 hours before passing its tax overhaul through the House, the GOP revised the legislation to include a paid family leave tax credit. Why aren’t paid leave advocates celebrating?
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“The hope is that if they throw enough anti-abortion language at the wall something is going to stick,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families. “It’s a dubious strategy. It’s an affront to women.”
