Dawn Huckelbridge, Director of the Paid Leave for All campaign, issued the following statement today applauding Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) and Representative Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) Essential Workers Bill of Rights proposal.
An Indiana truck driver denied paid leave while experiencing coronavirus symptoms. An Arizona HVAC employee paid for just two of 13 days spent in self-quarantine. A California USPS worker rejected for paid leave when caring for her child whose school was closed.
Dear Majority Leader McConnell, Minority Leader Schumer, Speaker Pelosi and Minority Leader McCarthy: We are writing on behalf of workers like like Mendy Hughes, a Walmart cashier in Arkansas, and millions like her: “We’re exposed to hundreds of people who come into Walmart every day. Most of us don’t have paid time off because cashiers […]
WASHINGTON – Dawn Huckelbridge, Director of the Paid Leave for All campaign, issued the following statement today in support of the paid leave protections included in the HEROES ACT: “The U.S. is only as safe as the most vulnerable worker in our society. The HEROES ACT is a crucial step in the right direction when […]
New Data Indicates Up to 106 Million Private Sector Workers Excluded from Emergency Paid Leave Despite a Supermajority of Support for the Policy
The Labor Department’s decision to block the majority of American workers from the paid sick and family leave Congress approved in March is not only wrongheaded and cruel, it is illegal
Dawn Huckelbridge, Director of the Paid Leave for All campaign, issued the following statement today concerning the US Department of Labor’s failure to properly incorporate paid leave requirements from the Phase Two coronavirus bill.
Public health officials have simple advice to abate the spread of COVID-19 in the United States: If you’re sick, stay home. And even if you’re not sick, stay home and practice “social distancing” whenever possible.
For immediate release: March 12, 2020 “Paid Leave for All calls on the U.S. House of Representatives and the Senate to immediately pass, and the President to sign, the Families First Coronavirus Response Act. The country is in a crisis and requires a response to scale. The Families First Act is a huge and urgent […]
Dear Members of Congress, We, the undersigned organizations, urge you to co-sponsor and advocate for swift passage of the Paid Sick Days for Public Health Emergencies and Personal and Family Care Act (S. 3415/H.R. 6150). The spread of COVID-19 has highlighted the economic consequences faced by working people when they lack access to paid sick […]
Washington, DC – Following the growing number of COVID-19 cases across the country, the Paid Leave for All campaign released the following statement urging Congress to pass the Paid Sick Days for Public Health Emergencies and Personal Care Act and comprehensive paid family and medical leave: “The strength of our nation’s health and economy depends […]
Following the CBO’s release of its score of the FAMILY Act, the only bipartisan, comprehensive paid leave bill in Congress, the campaign Paid Leave for All released the following
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