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”
Category Archives: Paid Sick Days
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”
New name, same values – and more progress for WA families!
The Washington Family Leave Coalition has made some changes – including our name! We’re now the Washington Work and Family Coalition. The new name reflects our more ambitious goals for healthy families and responsible businesses, include both expanding family medical leave insurance to include care for seriously ill family members and the worker’s own serious health condition asContinue reading “New name, same values – and more progress for WA families!”