It is about keeping businesses and workers strong, helping to maintain their edge in a tightening global economy.
This bill would be great for our economy if more people went on vacation.
The absence of a national paid sick days policy today affects countless families and workers.
This is about simply setting the floor on what we all can agree is good corporate citizenship, about staying competitive as a nation.
What does it say when Lesotho, Papua, New Guinea are implementing paid sick days to give their businesses and their entire nation a competit...
Half of all private sector workers do not have a single paid day off that they can use for themselves or a sick family member.
When working parents go to work sick, they risk infecting the entire workforce.
I believe workers in America ought to have paid sick days. It is a basic matter of right and wrong.
What does it say when Lesotho and Papua New Guinea are implementing paid sick days to give their businesses and their entire nation a compet...
Ultimately this issue as part of the larger health care debate going on right now.
We are literally working ourselves to death.
We thank Representative Rosa DeLauro and Senator Ted Kennedy for their leadership on this legislation.
In a nation that values families, no worker should have to choose between their job and their own or a family member's health.
Together, these policies promote health and reduce health care costs by helping workers access preventive, timely, and lower-cost health ser...
Workers should not be punished for following guidelines from the nation's health experts, and we all have a stake in ensuring that those who...
We need to make sure that when the family health manager also works outside the home, she can still perform her important job of keeping her...
Thank you for having this hearing on an important piece of legislation, the Healthy Families Act, which would guarantee most workers seven d...
When working parents must go to work sick, they risk infecting their entire workplace.
