NY state has 12 weeks paid parental leave for some employees – AP News
“In terms of parental leave, I think this is absolutely one of the best in the country for state government employees,” said Vasu Reddy, senior policy counsel for economic justice at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
The ‘rogue’ Trump-appointed judge with abortion pill’s future in his hands – The Guardian
“A decision to ban mifepristone nationwide would be devastating,” said Shaina Goodman, director for reproductive health and rights at the National Partnership for Women & Families. “This is a very deliberate, coordinated strategy by the anti-abortion movement to attack abortion every which way they can, and they’ve found in Kacsmaryk a judge who has a track record of making decisions based not on law or evidence, but on partisan ideology.”
Paid Parental Leave?/ Response to State of Union – WBAI – 99.5 FM
“It’s been 30 yrs since the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) making it a federal law that 12 weeks of Unpaid Family Leave was due any worker who met certain requirements, was signed into law by Bill Clinton; it was supposed to be “just the beginning” of support for families who needed time off for the birth of a child or to take care of sick relatives”
Meet Marissa: Advocating for an Inclusive Jewish Community – The Jewish Federation of Greater Washington
Marissa Ditkowsky, a member of Federation’s Disability Inclusion Committee and 2022 Capital Chai honoree, is a disabled advocate and attorney currently serving as Disability Economic Justice Counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families. Interview with Marissa Ditkowsky.
FMLA at 30: Persisting Toward Paid Leave – Ms. Magazine
It’s time we make comprehensive, paid family and medical leave a reality for every worker in America.
Once revolutionary, still inadequate. Who’s celebrating the FMLA at 30? – The Washington Post
“The law was a groundbreaking step forward, making clear that a policy enabling workers to care for their families was an essential, baseline labor standard,” said Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, the organization that was the primary architect of the FMLA law and struggled for nearly 10 years to pass it.
Calls for paid leave grow louder 30 years after passage of Family and Medical Leave Act – PBS NewsHour
The other thing that we know, of the 44 percent of workers who aren’t covered by the FMLA, that workers of color are disproportionately in that number, 48 percent of what Latinx workers, 47 percent of Asian workers, 43 percent of Black workers. So workers of color are bearing the brunt of the gaps of the FMLA. And those are gaps that we should fill.
A 1993 family and medical leave law was supposed to be just the start. Thirty years later, not much has changed. – 19th News
“It was thought of, at the time, by us as an important civil rights piece of legislation,” said Lichtman, the former president and now senior advisor at the National Partnership for Women and Families.
30 years after passing the Family and Medical Leave Act, the U.S. must do more to secure paid leave for all – Fortune
An analysis by the National Partnership for Women and Families found that the FMLA has been used 460 million times since it was signed into law.
What the Family and Medical Leave Act has meant for U.S. women – Fast Company
“Women have been expected to take on [caregiving] and handle it without complaint and largely without support,” says Jocelyn Frye, president of the National Partnership. “The Family and Medical Leave Act rejected the premise that it‚Äôs a woman’s lot in life to do that work. Instead, what the FMLA said is that all workers have some sort of care need, and we need to be able to ensure that those folks can take time off and come back to their jobs.”
