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Dec 18, 2018 |
The governor-elect has made paid leave a top priority for his first year in office, while a newly empowered DFL majority in the House is sympathetic to the issue. Even the GOP chair of a Senate committee reconstituted to take on family issues says she wants to look into the issue.
Dec 17, 2018 |
Paid time off may sound like a luxury, but it’s also a public health issue: More than 90 percent of food-borne Norovirus contamination occurs during food preparation.
Dec 14, 2018 |
Today, outgoing Michigan Governor Rick Snyder signed into law an inadequate shell of a paid sick days bill. With this action, Gov. Snyder and the Republican-controlled legislature gutted the Earned Sick Time Act, which the legislature had adopted in September 2018 in...
Dec 14, 2018 |
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Dec 14, 2018 |
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Dec 14, 2018 |
Dec 13, 2018 |
Anyone who says they believe in family should be willing to support the ability of a mother to stay home with a sick child. In fact, we have those policies in place with our staff in the Legislature.
Dec 12, 2018 |
“You kind of feel like you’re behind, and it’s just nice to feel like we’re catching up,” [Sammamish worker Maia] Knox said of the new benefit.
Dec 12, 2018 |
National Partnership Agenda Urges Reforms that Support Women and Families
Dec 12, 2018 |
It is time to renew the promise of the FAMILY Act. The new Democratic leaders in the House will almost surely renew the bill and pass it in the House, while Republicans in the Senate should prove once and for all whether they are actually the party of family values.
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