Washington’s regular 2012 legislative session ended without action on the Paid Sick Days bill. The special session that convened in mid-March is focused on the state budget. Will Washington’s 2013-14 Legislature support paid sick days and paid family and medical leave insurance? All the seats in Washington’s House of Representatives and half of the seatsContinue reading “Make sure candidates know you and your family care about paid sick days and paid family leave!”
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Paid sick days: 5 million fewer cases of the flu, $1 billion in taxpayer savings
Cross-posted from Washington Policy Watch: A growing body of evidence shows that a minimum standard for paid sick days would not only improve people’s health – it would also save the nation’s bottom line. According to a recent report published by the National Institutes of Health: the absence of certain workplace policies, such as paidContinue reading “Paid sick days: 5 million fewer cases of the flu, $1 billion in taxpayer savings”
Koala zombies, germ warfare and paid sick days
Have you heard about the highly contagious Koala flu that turns people into horrifying, albeit adorable, zombie marsupials who subsist only on human thigh meat and eucalyptus leaves? No, you haven’t, because it hasn’t happened — yet. When it does, we’re probably all going to get it because of annoying co-workers who insist on comingContinue reading “Koala zombies, germ warfare and paid sick days”
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