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Paid Sick Days Improve Overall Health
11.01.2008 | Human Impact Partners | The California Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act of 2008 (AB 2716) and other similar bills being considered around the country would guarantee that all workers in the state accrue at least one hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked. In the spring of 2008, Human Impact Partners and researchers at the San Francisco Department of Public Health conducted a Health Impact Assessment of the California bill, evaluating how it could protect and improve public health. This report provides a summary of the findings of that assessment. | Read
Then in the fall of 2008, HIP conducted a briefer analysis of a ballot referendum being considered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin that would give workers in the city similar benefits to those proposed in the California bill. | Read
Job Growth Continues With Paid Sick Days
10.20.2008 | Despite an economic slowdown affecting all counties in the Bay Area starting in 2007, San Francisco maintains a competitive job growth rate that exceeds the average growth rate of nearby counties. Further, San Francisco business leaders are saying that the policy has not negatively impacted employers. | News Release | Fact Sheet
Valuing Families at Work: Priorities for Federal Action in 2009 and Beyond
A concise summary of proposed new federal workplace standards to:
- Guarantee a minimum number of paid sick days for everyone in the labor force.
- Ensure job-protected and affordable family and medical leave for all workers.
- Ensure all employees have the right to greater control over their work schedules so they are not penalized for care giving responsibilities.
These new standards would greatly reduce poverty, enhance economic security and have promote other positive impacts on families, businesses and communities across the nation. | Read
Family Values at Work: It’s About Time!
Why We Need Minimum Standards to Ensure a
Family-Friendly Workplace
09.26.2007 | Documents the consequences for workers, families, businesses and the nation when family values end at the workplace door, and lays out a policy agenda including a minimum number of paid sick days for routine illnesses as well as a family leave insurance fund to provide income during longer-term leaves for a new baby or serious health condition. | Read
Give Me A Break: The Extent of Paid Holidays and Vacation
08.22.2002 | American workers hold a unique position among workers in industrialized countries: U.S. law guarantees them no holidays or vacation. While every other industrialized country has a legislated minimum number of days of paid leave, employers are not required to provide workers in the United States with any vacation. | Read