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WA Senate conservatives attack working families, vote to weaken Seattle’s...
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Status of Work and Family bills in Olympia
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Will family leave repeal get crammed into budget deal?
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Tell legislators: Don’t roll back paid leave protections!
During the regular session, the Senate passed two bills that would repeal family and medical leave insurance and roll back paid sick leave protections. Conservative members of the House and Senate have...
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Employers Report Modest Use of Paid Sick Days
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The Importance of Paid Family and Medical Leave: Shelby’s Story
One woman’s story about losing her wages and nearly losing her home when she had to take a short leave to care for her daughter and her dad. Shelby Ramirez – a mother of two, caregiver, full-time...
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Paid Parental Leave: The Status of Women 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago the President’s Commission on the Status of Women recommended that paid maternity leave be provided to improve conditions for working women. While the 1993 Family Medical Leave Act...
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Join us in strengthening women’s economic security – Vancouver
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Join us in strengthening women’s economic security – Bellingham
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Make sure candidates know you and your family care about paid sick days and...
Will Washington’s 2013-14 Legislature support paid sick days and paid family and medical leave insurance? All the seats in Washington’s House of Representatives and half of the seats in the Senate will...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Family leave provokes fight in state Senate
The article, by John Stang, originally appeared on Crosscut.com Democrats want to expand families’ ability to take care of a child or sick relative. Republicans want to kill the state’s law. A double...
View ArticleClik here to view.
WA Senate conservatives attack working families, vote to weaken Seattle’s...
If conservatives in the Washington State Senate get their way, this will be the fate of Seattle’s landmark paid sick days law. The attack on Washington’s families and middle class by Senate Republicans...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Status of Work and Family bills in Olympia
Wednesday, March 13 was “cut-off” in Olympia. For the rest of the legislative session, only bills that have already passed the House or the Senate will be considered, except for budget bills and bills...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Will family leave repeal get crammed into budget deal?
Marilyn Watkins, Policy Director at the Economic Opportunity Institute Washington’s legislature is moving into its final phase focused on reconciling 3 different versions of the 2013-2015 budget before...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tell legislators: Don’t roll back paid leave protections!
During the regular session, the Senate passed two bills that would repeal family and medical leave insurance and roll back paid sick leave protections. Conservative members of the House and Senate have...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Employers Report Modest Use of Paid Sick Days
Maybe you’ve had that early morning moment of anxiety when you wake up with a fever and a cough that won’t stop and you think ‘Should I go to work today?’ If you’re lucky, your employer offers a few...
View ArticleThe Importance of Paid Family and Medical Leave: Shelby’s Story
One woman’s story about losing her wages and nearly losing her home when she had to take a short leave to care for her daughter and her dad. Shelby Ramirez – a mother of two, caregiver, full-time...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Paid Parental Leave: The Status of Women 50 Years Later
Fifty years ago the President’s Commission on the Status of Women recommended that paid maternity leave be provided to improve conditions for working women. While the 1993 Family Medical Leave Act...
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