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.
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...
What does it say when Lesotho, Papua, New Guinea are implementing paid sick days to give their businesses and their enti...
Half of all private sector workers do not have a single paid day off that they can use for themselves or a sick family m...
When working parents go to work sick, they risk infecting the entire workforce.
I was in Aviano not too long ago, and the airmen there talked about their interest in the F-22.
We could lose between 2,000 and 3,000 jobs if we cut production there.