Thank you for having this hearing on an important piece of legislation, the Healthy Families Act, which would guarantee ...
We need to make sure that when the family health manager also works outside the home, she can still perform her importan...
Workers should not be punished for following guidelines from the nation's health experts, and we all have a stake in ens...
Together, these policies promote health and reduce health care costs by helping workers access preventive, timely, and l...
In a nation that values families, no worker should have to choose between their job and their own or a family member's h...
We thank Representative Rosa DeLauro and Senator Ted Kennedy for their leadership on this legislation.
we can figure out a way to move ourselves forward into the 21st century in a way that can work for both employers and em...
there is ample evidence that we are headed toward a workforce shortage.
these policies save businesses money, and that the cost of presenteeism... well exceed the cost of absenteeism.
we are the only one that doesn't have laws that require either paid time off short-term, long-term.
Paid sick days are good for business.
To that end, at the height of the H1N1 Flu outbreak, my office distributed 55,000 sick days fliers to the San Francisco ...
69 percent of all Americans support our paid vacation bill.
Paid sick leave also decreases turnover and its associated costs, increases employee morale and satisfaction and ultimat...
The new study finds that guaranteed paid sick days would reduce the spread of pandemic and seasonal flu.
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...
What does it say when Lesotho, Papua, New Guinea are implementing paid sick days to give their businesses and their enti...