From the Washington Post By Petula Dvorak The coughing starts in the middle of the night. And while you are watching your child’s poor little body in footed pajamas curl up with every hacking spasm, you are doing the calculations in your head, realizing that you are absolutely hosed if you miss work the nextContinue reading “Paid sick leave for the worker can benefit all”
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H1N1 exposes weak leave policies
From the Washington Post: When Great Falls resident Carolyn Cuppernull’s 10-year-old daughter came down with swine flu, she didn’t have to take time off work to stay home with her. Cuppernull is senior marketing manager of the Washington office of the law firm Akerman Senterfitt. Under the group’s former policy, she would have had toContinue reading “H1N1 exposes weak leave policies”
With H1N1 Spreading this Fall: We Need Paid Sick Days, Not Another “iPhone App”
Cross-posted from National Partnership for Women and Families: As schools reopen and cooler, drier temperatures return here to Washington, D.C., the nation waits for the second wave of the H1N1 flu to hit us. Meanwhile, we are bombarded by information on the Internet, in the news and through our email inboxes. Google, too, is inContinue reading “With H1N1 Spreading this Fall: We Need Paid Sick Days, Not Another “iPhone App””
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