“When a pregnancy is relatively typical, uncomplicated, it’s difficult for employees to be granted simple requests such as more frequent bathroom breaks or to carry a water bottle,” said Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Following Trump’s Parental Leave Announcement, New Spot Reminds Viewers That Paid Leave Should Be Time to Care – for All of Us
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“The Trump administration’s paid parental-leave proposal would do more harm than good by, among other things, offering only six weeks of paid leave and only to new parents.” – Vicki Shabo, vice president at the National Partnership for Women & Families.
“A paid leave plan that continues the current state-by-state patchwork, only provides six weeks of leave when we have a clearly established 12-week national standard, guarantees leave only for new parents and is not funded responsibly would do more harm than good,” Debra Ness, president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, said in a statement.
National Partnership for Women & Families President Debra L. Ness on Friday issued the following statement in response to reports that President Trump’s FY2018 budget proposal will require states to provide paid parental leave: “The news that paid...
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, says her group’s post-election poll showed 82 percent support for paid sick leave. She says support is nonpartisan. “That includes two-thirds of Republicans, three-quarters of independents and virtually all Democrats,” she says.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
With so much on the line right now when it comes to the economic security, health and safety of our nation’s women and families, the National Partnership for Women & Families will host a congressional briefing on Thursday to discuss the specific legislative and...
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“This is a gender equality issue, an economic security issue, a competitiveness issue and—at the most basic level—a human issue. We all have families. We all get sick. We live in the wealthiest country in the world and there is no reason whatsoever that we should not have a basic paid leave standard,” said National Partnership Vice President Vicki Shabo in a Q & A interview for Goop.
Statement of Debra L. Ness, President, National Partnership for Women & Families
“Having a baby is the most expensive health event that families face during their childbearing years. At the same time, a lack of workplace supports for many women during this critical time means a woman may not have paid sick days for prenatal appointments or well-baby care, or paid family and medical leave to use after giving birth,” said Sarah Lipton-Lubet, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families.
“We were glad to see that it’s still in place, and we would hope that if and when Acosta is confirmed he will continue to maintain and enforce the executive order and won’t advocate for rescission,” Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families, told Bloomberg BNA.
Sarah Fleisch Fink, director of workplace policy and senior counsel at the National Partnership for Women & Families, says the bans are an important step in the ongoing fight for equal pay.
“What we’re doing here is providing an out for employers that don’t want to take the high road and pay their employees the money that they’re owed at the time that they are owed it,” said Vicki Shabo, vice president of the National Partnership for Women & Families.
