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The Cassidy bill fails spectacularly to meet working families’ needs during this pandemic crisis

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 […]

Dawn Huckelbridge, Director of the Paid Leave for All campaign, today issued the following statement praising the House of Representatives for passing the HEROES Act, which will close loopholes and guarantee more workers access to paid leave during the COVID-19 pandemic:

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 […]

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

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 applauding Senator Elizabeth Warren’s (D-Mass.) and Representative Ro Khanna’s (D-Calif.) Essential Workers Bill of Rights proposal.

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 […]