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
statement
Thank you, Chairman Neal and Members of the Ways and Means Committee, for holding this Hearing on Legislative Proposals for Paid Family and Medical Leave.
US is the only industrial nation without a national paid leave law as campaign leaders voice optimism to change situation
National and state groups also launched a collaborative effort today—Paid Leave for All—to raise funds, hire shared staff and develop a coordinated strategy to win an inclusive paid family and medical leave policy with bipartisan support.
The growing campaign already includes dozens of member and supporter organizations across the country.
When balancing work and family becomes difficult, women tend to resort to caregiving and men to earning money.
Momentum for paid family leave mirrors effort to pass FMLA.