Katie Porter DOMINATES Trump CDC Stooge

Lack of Paid Sick Leave Makes It Difficult for Many Workers to Comply with CDC Advice to Stay Home

As Deadly Flu Sweeps Country, Koch-Backed Group Fights Paid Sick Leave Policies Nationwide

Trump's Labor Pick, Fast-Food CEO Andrew Puzder, Opposes Minimum Wage Increase & Paid Sick Leave

Obama Forces US Contractors To Provide Sick Leave Pay

Paid Family & Medical Leave | Bernie Sanders

What?! Florida just Outlawed Sick Leave

Philadelphia City Council Approves Paid Sick Days, But It Won’t Go Far

Philadelphia City Council Approves Paid Sick Days, But It Won’t Go Far: pOn Thursday, the city council of Philadelphia approved, by a vote of 11-6, paid sick leave for employees. The proposal would require businesses with 6-20 employees to provide four paid sick days. Businesses of more than 20 would need to give seven days of paid leave. But that is unlikely to happen unless one council [...]/p

Portland, Oregon Becomes Fourth American City To Adopt Paid Sick Day Law

Portland, Oregon Becomes Fourth American City To Adopt Paid Sick Day Law: Portland became the fourth American city to approve a paid sick days law Wednesday, an important step forward today that will help the city’s workers, employers, and residents. Portland joined three other cities – San [...]/p

How ALEC Is Fueling Efforts To Block Paid Sick Leave And Other Pro-Worker Policies

How ALEC Is Fueling Efforts To Block Paid Sick Leave And Other Pro-Worker Policies: The American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), which has been described as a “collaboration between multinational corporations and conservative state legislators”, is waging a campaign against workers, especially those in minimum wage jobs with few to no benefits. The National [...]/p

Top Republican Senator Repeats Debunked Nonsense About Paid Sick Days

Top Republican Senator Repeats Debunked Nonsense About Paid Sick Days: Nearly three million Americans missed work last month, and many of them did so without having access to paid sick leave. About 40 percent of private sector workers and 80 percent of low-income workers don’t receive a single paid sick day from their employers, forcing them into choosing between their health (or the health of [...]/p

Despite Big Business’ Warnings, There’s No Evidence That Mandated Sick Leave Causes Job Loss

Despite Big Business’ Warnings, There’s No Evidence That Mandated Sick Leave Causes Job Loss: Requiring that businesses provide employees decent amounts of sick leave doesn’t cost jobs, according to research by the consumer advocate group Public Citizen. The researchers studied three examples of sick leave policies — the San Francisco paid sick leave ordinance (which requires general paid sick leave), the wider California Paid Family and Medical Leave (which [...]/p

It’s Time for Paid Family and Medical Leave » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

It’s Time for Paid Family and Medical Leave » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names
"Tuesday, February 5, marks the 20th anniversary of the federal Family and Medical Leave Act, passed with bipartisan support in Congress and signed into law by President Bill Clinton in 1993.  In the 20 years since passage, the FMLA has been used more than 100 million times by women and men who needed a family or medical leave.

Yet, as we celebrate what the FMLA has achieved, we need to recognize that it was always intended as an important first step in making it possible for people to be responsible employees and good parents and family members. Much unfinished business must still be addressed if the FMLA is to live up to its promise."

4 Reasons To Update The Family And Medical Leave Act For The 21st Century

4 Reasons To Update The Family And Medical Leave Act For The 21st Century: Twenty years ago today, President Bill Clinton signed his first law: the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993. The law, still the only one that is explicitly aimed at helping workers manage their work-life balance, provides unpaid leave for workers to recover from a serious illness or care for a new child without worrying [...]/p

Seattle Coffee Chain Charging 'Sick Leave Surcharge' Of 1.5%

Seattle Coffee Chain Charging 'Sick Leave Surcharge' Of 1.5%
"this shameful little tale of passive-aggressive douchebaggery: A coffee chain owner whoannounces a "surcharge" to cover the city's new mandatory sick pay law -- instead of quietly raising his prices:"

A Vicious New Strain Of Stomach Flu Shows The Importance Of Paid Sick Leave

A Vicious New Strain Of Stomach Flu Shows The Importance Of Paid Sick Leave: Jane Farrell, a research assistant for economic policy at the Center for American Progress Action Fund. It seems that the U.S. is set up for a double-whammy outbreak of illness this winter — after enduring one of the worst flu seasons in years, America now faces an especially vicious strain of [...]/p

Floridians Denied Chance To Vote On Paid Sick Leave

Floridians Denied Chance To Vote On Paid Sick Leave: Orange County Floridians will be unable to cast their votes for or against paid sick leave in November. The contentious debate surrounding a ballot initiative to provide earned sick days to Orange County employees has come to a sad close for sick leave advocates, after county commissioners stalled long enough to prevent the initiative from [...]/p

Orange County Lawmakers Successfully Push Paid Sick Leave Initiative Off November Ballot

Orange County Lawmakers Successfully Push Paid Sick Leave Initiative Off November Ballot: Workers in Orange County, Florida, won’t have paid sick leave to look forward to in the coming months, after conservative lawmakers successfully negated a ballot initiative that would have required any business of more than 15 employees to provide paid sick days. The Orange County Commission voted unanimously to delay consideration of the measure last [...]/p

Florida Conservatives Look To Void Paid Sick Days Initiative Before It Even Passes

Florida Conservatives Look To Void Paid Sick Days Initiative Before It Even Passes:  When is a democracy not a democracy? Apparently the answer to that riddle is “when voters indicate they are interesting in passing paid sick days laws.” In 2008, voters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin passed a referendum requiring [...]/p

New York City Council Speaker Blocks Paid Sick Day Law Despite Popular Support

New York City Council Speaker Blocks Paid Sick Day Law Despite Popular Support: New York City’s paid sick leave bill is backed by grassroots labor activists, a veto-proof majority of the city council, the New York Times editorial board, and even some celebrities. However, Council Speaker Christine Quinn (D) is blocking the measure from coming up for a vote, claiming it would have a negative effect on small [...]/p