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.
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.
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.
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.