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August 30, 2010
U.S. Women's Chamber of Commerce Supports Paid Sick Days!
“The U.S.Women’s Chamber of Commerce supports a minimum standard for paid sick days. Healthy businesses need healthy workers, which is precisely what paid sick days accomplish. Women-run businesses are on the forefront by typically offering such benefits because they understand the needs of working women and their families. Paid sick days are an investment in our families, our workforce, and our health that we cannot afford to do without.” Margot Dorfman, CEO,Women’s Chamber of Commerce. TAKE ACTION: E-mail Andrea Lindemann at the Center for Law and Social Policy; alindemann@clasp.org to add your business’s name to a letter to Congress supporting the national paid sick days bill, The Healthy Families Act (just include your business name and location in the subject line). Or e-mail Ellen Wallace at the Mass Paid Leave Coalition; ewallace@gbls.org to add your business's name to Massachusetts businesses that support of the state Paid Sick Days Act.
August 25, 2010
It's Enough to Make You Sick
The Paid Sick Days Act would have required employers to give employees at least seven paid sick days, which could have been used for themselves or to care for a family member. The bill had been endorsed by the Legislature's Committee on Labor and Workforce Development but died in the Ways and Means Committee.
Aug. 4, 2010
Unhealthy Coverage
The Herald’s two days of articles against paid sick leave claim that a pending bill would be bad for business and lead to abuse (“ ‘Nuff to make you sick,” July 26 and “Putting recovery at risk,” July 27). Research says otherwise.

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MOMS PUSH STUCK PAID SICK DAYS BILL

STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE, June 22, 2010

MOMS PUSH STUCK PAID SICK DAYS BILL:
Stroller-pushing moms and activists favoring a paid sick days bill roamed the State House Tuesday, visiting the offices of lawmakers and telling aides they want to dislodge the bill from committee and bring it up for floor votes before formal legislative sessions end in 38 days.  “We haven’t had very much luck with people being in their offices today,” Marianne Bullock, a MomsRising campaign director told the News Service during a break between office visits.   Bullock, of Greenfield, said her boss fired her over the phone three years ago during her second day away from work while caring for her 10-month-old daughter suffering from Norovirus.  MomsRising volunteers delivered bottles of hand sanitizer to lawmakers “to let you know that even Super Moms can’t fight off all germs” and need paid sick days.  The Paid Sick Days Act (S 688/H 1815) won the endorsement of the Legislature’s Committee on Labor and Workforce Development in March and is now pending before the House Ways and Means Committee, after a stop in the Health Care Financing Committee.  Bill supporters say it addresses the economic interests of workers and families and public health concerns by guaranteeing that workers in Massachusetts accrue at least one hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked.  The bill would allow employers to earn up to seven paid sick days a year and direct all employers to allow workers to use those earned days.  According to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, waitresses are the most likely workers to lack paid sick days, followed by cooks, child care workers, cashiers, retail salespeople, personal and home care aides, janitors and building cleaners, receptionists and information clerks, maids and housekeepers, and nursing, psychiatric and home health aides.  Sen. Patricia Jehlen (D-Somerville) is the chief sponsor of the Senate bill and the House bill’s main sponsor is Rep. Kay Khan (D-Newton). 3:30 P.M.