Fact Sheets
- Paid Sick and Safe Days: Standards for Washington state | Read
- Update on Work and Family Issues in Congress: Federal Funding for State Paid Family Leave Programs | Read
- Washington Family Leave Insurance: Benefits for All Families | A closer look at the anticipated beneficiaries of Washington’s Family Leave Insurance program. | Read
- Family Leave Insurance: Security for our families, stimulus for our economy | How Family Leave Insurance improves family security, business productivity and public health. | Read
- Healthy Families Act: Answers to Frequently Asked Questions | Read
- Paid Sick Days: Benefits for Families | Read
- Paid Sick Days: Benefits for Business | Read
- Paid Sick Days: Benefits for Public Health | Read
- Paid Sick Days: Facts About Washington State | Read
Reports
- Our National Priorities | EOI and the Washington Family Leave Coalition are part of a national movement to modernize workplace standards to reflect the realities of today’s workforce and create policies that truly value families. | Read
- Parental Leave Policies in 21 Countries | How do paid family leave policies in the U.S. stack up in comparison to other nation? | Read
- Who Can Stay Home with the Flu? | In a world where diseases mutate and spread across the globe in weeks, Americans need paid sick days to protect our health and our economy. But nearly 4 in 10 private sector workers lack even one paid sick day, and many more face disciplinary action if they do call in sick.| Read
- Newborn Family Leave: Effects on Business, Parents, and Children | This report combines the results of more than 150 studies on the impact of family leave on parents, newborns, and businesses. It synthesizes the most significant research on newborn family leave into one document, providing a broad view of leave’s economic and social impacts.| Read
Newsletters
More Resources
- ‘Support Paid Sick Days’ website | A project of the National Partnership for Women and Families, www.paidsickdays.org updates visitors with the latest state-level action on paid sick days, what’s new with the Healthy Families Act in Congress, and offers fact sheets, tools and the latest research around paid sick days. | More
- Leaves that Pay: Employer and Worker Experiences with Paid Family Leave in California | An examination of California’s Paid Family Leave program six years after implementation finds that it has provided much-needed relief for more than 1 million Californians in just six years without costing the government or employers a dime. | More
- Stories from the front lines of motherhood | The stories in this booklet come from the front lines of motherhood, speaking of the impossible choices, struggles, and the sometimes improbable triumphs of mothers, fathers, and other caregivers to care for their children and other loved ones when over 50 million American workers do not have the right to earn paid sick days. | More
- 1000 Voices | Stories of real people who are fighting for workplace policies that value families, such as paid sick days, workplace flexibility, and paid family leave. | More
- The Working Families Story Bank | The Working Families Story Bank is a collection of story portraits of workers and employers across America, focusing on narratives about paid sick days and affordable family leave. | More
- The Work, Family, and Equality Index | This report was developed to measure governmental performance around the world in meeting the needs of working families. To complete the index, data were gathered from 177 countries that represent a wide range of political, social and economic systems, and compared against the United States. | More
- Progressive States Network: Paid Sick Days | The Progressive States Network is working with its partners and leading experts to promote paid sick days reforms in states across the country. These reforms will allow parents to take care of sick children and workers to be more productive, while protecting the overall public health and preventing transmission of diseases within the workplace. | More
