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Urgent! Tell WA state senators to improve – not repeal – paid family leave

This is no “Chicken Little” or “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” situation: Washington families, and families-to-be, need your help today. What’s going on? In 2007, we came together to pass a paid family leave law so that parents could spend 5 weeks at home after the birth or arrival of a new child. In theContinue reading “Urgent! Tell WA state senators to improve – not repeal – paid family leave”

Paid family leave and paid sick days bills introduced!

Most workers have only limited paid leave (and many, none at all) to deal with family health needs. A bout of the flu, a car accident, or cancer diagnosis can nosedive a family into economic crisis. Two new bills in Olympia can change all that. By ensuring working moms and dads can take time awayContinue reading “Paid family leave and paid sick days bills introduced!”

Dueling bills introduced on paid family leave law

By Rachel La Corte, AP OLYMPIA, Wash. (AP) — Six years ago, Washington state lawmakers approved a program giving parents five weeks of paid time off to be with a new child. But the question of how to pay for the program was never answered, and now some lawmakers are looking to remove it fromContinue reading “Dueling bills introduced on paid family leave law”