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.
Make paid sick leave the law across Illinois –
Paid sick time is about dignity. We all get sick sometimes. When we do, we shouldn’t have to risk losing our jobs or forgoing needed wages because we must stay home.
Do All Doctors Perform VBACs? Here’s What You Should Know – Romper – Romper
Currently, the United States has the lowest rate of VBAC of any industrialized country. In 2013 (the most recently updated year for stats), only 10 percent of all live births were VBACs, reported Childbirth Connection.
Wealth, not just wages, is the way to measure women’s equality –
To address these inequities, we need a broad menu of solutions that addresses income and wealth. On the income side, that means pushing for pay equity, affordable childcare and paid family leave.
How much bonding time you get with your baby is determined by how many co-workers you have. Is that fair? – How much bonding time you get with your baby is determined by how many co-workers you have. Is that fair?
“Family lives have changed dramatically in recent decades but our policies have remained frozen in a Leave-it-to-Beaver 1950s world which no longer exists,” said Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (D-Santa Barbara).
Dr. Dipesh Navsaria: U.S. needs to catch up on paid family leave –
The United States is one of the only industrialized nations that does not offer paid leave to new parents. This flies in the face of extensive, long-standing research on the importance of the first thousand days of life.
Events in Charlottesville an ‘Affront to Our Country;’ Trump’s Response ‘Disgracefully Inadequate’
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Senator King supports new paid family, medical leave legislation – ATORKING SUPPORTS NEW PAID FAMILY, LEAVE LEGI
Senator Angus King is standing with local business owners and showing his support for new paid family and medical leave legislation.
Here’s Another Way Working Mothers Are Penalized – ES ARE PE
No matter what strides individual working mothers make, the country’s lack of a paid family leave policy remains a burden to women and parents, in ways both big and small.
