If there was ever a time that working families need an extra measure of economic security, this is it.
Opponents of a paid sick days measure will claim it's too expensive for businesses. This view is penny-wise but pound-foolish.
To that end, at the height of the H1N1 Flu outbreak, my office distributed 55,000 sick days fliers to the San Francisco Unified School Distr...
For families in the lowest quartile of earners, 79 percent lack paid sick time.
Paid sick leave also decreases turnover and its associated costs, increases employee morale and satisfaction and ultimately enhances profita...
I thank the Subcommittee for holding a hearing on the Healthy Families Act introduced in the House by Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro
Expanded access to paid sick days could help the state meet its cost-containment goals.
Paid sick days would offer substantial savings to employers by reducing turnover and minimizing absenteeism.
Working families need paid leave to help them stay afloat financially when they have a new child, when a wage earner falls critically ill, o...
People need time to recharge their batteries.
This is really about simply setting the floor on what we all can agree is good corporate citizenship.
But economists tell us that this is precisely the time to act.
we lead the world in employees who can never take a day off.
The FIRST Act, however, is an essential step to achieving our ultimate goal.
It boggles my mind that 30 years later that any employer would rather have employees come to work sick than provide them the time off they n...
I am a strong supporter of a national policy on paid leave and commend Representative Maloney on HR 626, the Federal Employees Parental Leav...
I believe that workers in America ought to have paid sick days. It is a basic matter of right and wrong.
The Healthy Families Act, which I introduced with Senator Kennedy, would correct this injustice.
