Biden admin to incentivize #CoastGuard servicemembers getting an #abortion with #paidleave, #freetravel

https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-03-28-biden-offers-incentives-cg-servicemembers-getting-abortion.html

Illinois enacts mandatory paid leave ‘for any reason’

"Illinois will become one of three states to require employers to offer paid time off for any reason after Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed a law on Monday that will take effect next year. ... Illinois employers must offer workers paid time off based on hours worked, with no need to explain the reason for their absence as long as they provide notice in accordance with reasonable employer standards."

#Illinois #PaidLeave

https://apnews.com/article/mandatory-paid-leave-work-illinois-law-435fabf7f5ce88d9ca9f1df692dadc2d

https://news.yahoo.com/illinois-enacts-mandatory-paid-leave-191410246.html

Illinois enacts mandatory paid leave for any reason.

#workersrights #Illinois #paidleave

Illinois Poised To Give HUGE Win To Working People

https://youtu.be/keYRcY5LuL0

#news #politics #uspolitics #illinois #paidleave

A 1993 family and medical leave law was supposed to be just the start. Thirty years later, not much has changed.

The modern shortcomings of FMLA — like the limits to eligibility and the fact that it is unpaid — were the product of legislative compromise built into the structure of the law.

https://19thnews.org/2023/02/family-medical-leave-law-30/

#fmla #paidleave #labor

We're proud to share space w/ a true hero! Cassandra Welchlin has been leading efforts in #Mississippi to close the #WageGap

“My belief? No mom should have to choose between her child and what she deserves from her job, which includes #EqualPay, access to healthcare, #PaidLeave, sick leave, and pregnancy accommodations."
#EqualPay

https://www.oprahdaily.com/entertainment/a41903015/cassandra-welchlin-pay-gap-work/

Blue-collar workers were nearly 11 % less likely to take 12 weeks of paid parental leave versus white-collar workers. Workers in the leisure and hospitality had the least paid leave.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/35372660/

#Class #ParentalLeave #BlueCollar #WhiteCollar #Workers #PaidLeave #NICHDImpact

"...beginning Jan. 1, 2024, the legislation would require nearly all employers to provide up to 40 hours of #PaidLeave per year. This would make #Illinois the third state with a mandatory #PaidTimeOff law." https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/legal-and-compliance/state-and-local-updates/pages/illinois-paid-leave-requirement.aspx

Greater workplace flexibility and more generous vacation-sick leave mandates for parents across rich nations are linked to smaller child health disparities.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34711998

#HealthDisparities #PaidLeave #NICHDImpact

How Democrats want to address paid family leave in 2023 - Vox

It’s an uphill battle in the new Congress — but Democrats aren’t letting the policy go.

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2023/1/12/23552186/kirsten-gillibrand-paid-leave-democrats-biden

#USPol #PaidLeave #LeaveAct

What family experts hope Congress will consider in ‘23 #ChildCare #PaidLeave https://www.deseret.com/2023/1/10/23537657/what-family-experts-hope-congress-will-consider-in-23

Need to give a big shoutout to #Oregon the paid leave for all employees for up to 90 days is life changing. Thank you for prioritizing our families and remembering we are not just cogs in a profit machine. #paidleave #thankyou

Access to paid sick leave is 10 percentage points lower among full-time workers in U.S. rural vs. urban areas (68% v. 77%) -- increasing the likelihood people will work contagious or forgo health care. These inequities will likely persist if change if left to individual employers or localities.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35881497

#RuralAmerica #PaidSickLeave #PaidLeave #NICHDImpact

Imaging my surprise that incoming #GOP leadership gives zero forks about #PaidLeave #ChildCare #CTC & things kids need RIGHT NOW, but they are super interested in using their time on hearings to scapegoat “the most dangerous woman in the world” for Trump’s failure to address #COVID responsibly. https://twitter.com/rweingarten/status/1602460882319335424?s=21&t=lBA1DK-fmEdU7OgT5g5K5g

After nearly three years, #covid finally got me this week.

It came on fast and flattened me Tuesday. Since then, I've slowly emerged from fatigue and rattling cough.

Thankful for #vaccines and #paidleave, or this would have been way worse.

If #American #workers truly understood how badly they were being treated compared to the rest of the industrialized world, there would be a revolution.

Guaranteed paid days off:

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Props to @TheUSASingers for this. We will be boosting with CW, sans the glare of the "sensitive content" light-bomb. Everybody follow the Singers, they're spot on.#labor #sickday #paidleave #RailStrike

The fact that we are still in a #pandemic and trail workers do not have ANY sick days is absolutely absurd. We know that #PaidLeave is incredibly important for public health. It’s absolutely unacceptable that (any) people are being asked to work under these conditions.
I know that the Biden admin is framing the recent bill passed as an incremental progress step, but the position it’s putting workers in feels really gross.

This part: "Approaching year three of a global pandemic, it’s shocking that the U.S. is still debating whether workers should be allowed to take time off work when they’re sick or need to see a doctor."
#paidleave
https://t.co/2ZivLfgj4V

I’ll never understand wanting employees to work while they’re ill. So you want your customers and other employees subjected to that? Ew. And how productive do you think people are when they feel like shit? Doesn’t make any damn sense. It’s gross in multiple ways… #PaidLeave #TheWorldIsWack

#PaidLeave is what #railroad workers should get: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2022/11/rail-strike-why-the-railroads-wont-give-in-on-paid-leave-psr-precision-scheduled-railroading.html