A section-by-section summary of the Healthy Families Act, which would establish a national paid sick days standard.
The Healthy Families Act Fact Sheet
FACT SHEET | The Healthy Families Act would set a national paid sick days standard – a critical step toward meeting the health and financial needs of working families.
Paid Sick Days Are Good for Business
FACT SHEET | Businesses benefit when their employees have access to paid sick days. When sick workers are able to stay home to recover, it lessens the risk of contagion, making workplaces healthier and employees more productive.
Paid Sick Days Improve Public Health
FACT SHEET | Every day, millions of U.S. workers face an impossible choice when they are sick: stay home and risk their economic security or go to work and risk their health and the public’s health. The evidence is clear: When workers have access to paid sick days,...
Current Paid Sick Days Laws
FACT SHEET | A list of all the paid sick days laws that are or will soon be in effect in the United States.
Nearly 73 Million Workers Live in States That Block Local Communities from Making Progress on Paid Sick Days
ISSUE BRIEF | Lawmakers in 18 states across the country – the majority of which are in the South – fail to guarantee that workers can earn paid sick days, and at the same time block local governments from setting their own standards for local workers, families and...
Understanding the Difference Between Paid Sick Days & Paid Family and Medical Leave
FACT SHEET | What's the difference between paid sick days and paid family and medical leave? And which states, cities and counties have paid leave and paid sick days?
Unfinished Policy Agenda for Women in the Economy Cost the U.S. $6.7 Trillion in GDP Gains Over a Decade
Despite the attention generated by the White House Summit on Working Families and the ongoing work of advocates, policy experts, and key policymakers, the comprehensive progress needed to strengthen women's participation in the economy and grow our economy overall has...
Paid Sick Days Statutes
CHART | A detailed summary of existing paid sick days laws.
Survivors of Domestic and Sexual Violence Need Paid Safe Days
FACT SHEET | On the need for the country's workplace policies to provide domestic and sexual violence survivors the support and job protection they need to recover - through a paid sick and safe days standard.
Back to School Sample Letter to the Editor
Fall is challenging for any working parent. Summer is over. Kids are headed back to school – and flu season is around the corner.
Back to School Sample Letter to an Elected Official
Dear Elected Official, As our state approaches back-to-school and flu season, I want to call your attention to the state’s failure to put in place a paid sick days standard – and the very real threat that poses to the health of our children, schools and communities...
Expanding Paid Sick Days and Paid Family and Medical Leave in Response to COVID-19
FACT SHEET | The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the universal need for - and far from universal access to - paid sick days and paid family and medical leave in the United States.
New Emergency Legislation Provides Paid Sick Days and Paid Leave for Child Care for Millions
The Families First Coronavirus Response Act, enacted and amended by the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, provides new rights to workers for short-term paid time away from work for coronavirus-related health and caregiving reasons, and...
Comparison Families First Coronavirus Response Act + CARES Act with PAID Leave Act
CHART | Comparison of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (P.L. 116-127) and CARES Act (P.L. 116-136), with the Provide Americans Insured Days (PAID) Leave Act (S. 3513)
Testimony to Md. Senate Finance Committee in Opposition to Maryland Healthy Working Families Act – Verification
The National Partnership for Women & Families is a nonprofit, nonpartisan advocacy organization dedicated to promoting fairness in the workplace, access to quality health care and policies that help women and men meet the demands of work and family. The National...
El Acta de Familias Saludables Hoja Informativa
HOJA INFORMATIVA | El Acta de Familias Saludables establecería un estándar nacional de días pagados por enfermedad – un paso crítico para satisfacer las necesidades financieras y de salud de las familias trabajadoras.
A Better Balance “Ideas-to-Action” Guide: Examples from the New York City Paid Sick Time Campaign
As families across the United States prepare for a new school year, work-family advocates have a timely opportunity to draw attention to the need for paid sick time. This document includes ideas for back-to-school actions concerning paid sick time, as well as examples...
Lake Research Partners 2016 Election Eve Omnibus Toplines for National Partnership for Women & Families
Questionnaire and topline results for Lake Research Partners 2016 election even and election night survey
Lake Research Partners: Election Eve/Night Omnibus Survey Results on Issues of Importance to Working Families
MEMO | A summary of key finding from a national 2016 election eve/night survey conducted by Lake Research Partners and The Tarrance Group.
