people need time to recharge their batteries.

We lead the world in employees who can never take a day off.

The Healthy Families Act would help us significantly reduce the spread of pandemic or seasonal flu by enabling workers to comply with public health advice if they or their family members show signs of illness.

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 family healthy.

If we are really committed to the American family, leave policies must be created so that everyone can achieve the work-life balance that is so frequently talked about.

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.

this bill would be great for our economy if more people went on vacation.

Paid sick days would offer substantial savings to employers by reducing turnover and minimizing absenteeism.

Do you get vacation? Their answer always is 'yes.'

Together, these policies promote health and reduce health care costs by helping workers access preventive, timely, and lower-cost health services while reducing workplace injuries and the spread of disease.

Our failure to guarantee a minimum standard of paid sick days is a significant public health concern, as we witnessed during the H1N1 virus outbreak.

women are not asking, women are demanding, work-life balance.

Ultimately this issue as part of the larger health care debate going on right now.

these policies save businesses money, and that the cost of presenteeism... well exceed the cost of absenteeism.

Paid sick days are good for business.

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.

The Healthy Families Act, which I introduced with Senator Kennedy, would correct this injustice.

We thank Representative Rosa DeLauro and Senator Ted Kennedy for their leadership on this legislation.

People need time to recharge their batteries.

we can figure out a way to move ourselves forward into the 21st century in a way that can work for both employers and employees.

we are the only one that doesn't have laws that require either paid time off short-term, long-term.

America needs a basic workplace standard that allows employees to earn paid sick days that they can use to recover from their own illness or to care for a sick family member.

The absence of a national paid sick days policy today affects countless families and workers.

In a nation that values families, no worker should have to choose between their job and their own or a family member's health.