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D.C. Corporate Front Group Tries to Speak for Seattle – and Fails Miserably

This week, The Seattle Times ran an op-ed by Michael Saltsman of the Employment Policies Institute (EPI), an industry-funded ‘research’ organization, claiming Seattle’s Paid Sick Days law is negatively impacting local businesses and driving up costs. Here’s the funny thing about EPI’s report: it’s basically an opinion survey of a very small sample. EPI surveyedContinue reading “D.C. Corporate Front Group Tries to Speak for Seattle – and Fails Miserably”

Providing paid leave is not just good for families, but for taxpayers and businesses too

When we think of paid maternity leave, we often think the benefits are constrained to the mom, child, and immediate family. But actually, the gains of paid family leave go much further. Providing paid family leave for new moms generates enormous savings for the state and taxpayers. Paid family leave allows new moms to takeContinue reading “Providing paid leave is not just good for families, but for taxpayers and businesses too”

81 Percent of New Moms Don’t Even Qualify for the FMLA

The United States has many accomplishments to be proud of – our inability to provide job-protected leave for new moms is not one of them. Twenty years ago, the Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) was signed by President Clinton – giving new moms their first right to job-protected, but unpaid, leave for the birth orContinue reading “81 Percent of New Moms Don’t Even Qualify for the FMLA”