14 Things You Should Know About Paid Leave in the U.S. – Cosmopolitan
At some point in your career, you will probably need to take time off from your job to care for yourself or a family member, or to welcome a tiny new human into your life. But because the federal government doesn’t require your workplace to offer paid family leave, it’s possible that you will have to choose between earning money and looking after a loved one – the latter which, yes, is pretty darn hard to do without an income.
Obama Planning to Require Paid Sick Leave for Contractors – Bloomberg Business
“An executive order that requires contractors to provide paid sick days is a substantial step in the right direction,” Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women and Families, said in a phone interview.
The one big problem with Netflix’s unlimited maternity policy – Fortune
“Having a set amount of time crates a more tangible expectation or norm. Unlimited policies can seem amorphous,” says Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Fight Over Planned Parenthood Funding Is Far From Over – U.S. News & World Report
“It would absolutely catastrophic for women’s health – that’s not an overstatement,” says Sarah Lipton-Lubet, the director of reproductive health programs at the National Partnership for Women and Families, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization that focuses on access to health care and reproductive rights. “There’s nothing about this legislation that’s actually about protecting or enhancing or even maintaining health care services for women,” she says. “It’s about playing politics with women’s health.”
Key Senate Dem pushes case for paid sick leave – The Hill
But Murray and outside supporters, like the National Partnership for Women and Families and YWCA USA, have said the sort of economic security provided by paid sick leave is especially helpful to low-income and minority workers.
Pa. Workers, Businesses Need a Paid Sick Leave Law – Philly.com
The National Partnership for Women and Families reports that in San Francisco, the first American city to enact sick leave legislation, more than 70 percent of employers said there was no impact on their profitability.
Lots Of Other Countries Mandate Paid Leave. Why Not The U.S.? – NPR
“Here in the U.S., while the war was going on, you had women in jobs in factories and in all kinds of jobs the men had held. But women went home” when the soldiers returned from the war, explains Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families.
UCLA Health System Data Breach Affects 4.5 Million Patients – Los Angeles Times
Mark Savage, a health information technology expert at the National Partnership for Women & Families, a nonprofit advocacy group in Washington, said it’s too early to assess UCLA’s digital defenses until more details are known about what the hackers did and what protections were in place.
Lots Of Other Countries Mandate Paid Leave. Why Not The U.S.? – NPR
“Here in the U.S., while the war was going on, you had women in jobs in factories and in all kinds of jobs the men had held. But women went home” when the soldiers returned from the war, explains Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership on Women and Families.
Praise for Patient-Centered Payment Models, Bundled Payments – RevCycle Intelligence
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) apparently gets a big thumbs up this week. Leading consumer advocacy group, the National Partnership for Women & Families (NPWF), openly praises CMS for its efforts regarding patient-centered payment models.

