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I applaud Chairman Nadler, Chairman Scott, and Ranking Member Katko for their leadership in passing the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act, a long overdue bipartisan effort to ensure equal protection in the workforce for women who are pregnant.
Across our country, too many pregnant workers are forced to choose between their health and a paycheck. They can be fired for taking too many bathroom breaks, or forced to go on unpaid leave due solely to being pregnant. These practices are unfair and often dangerous. My Administration has made it a priority to support the health and economic security of pregnant workers particularly women of color, who experience unconscionably high rates of maternal mortality. It is long past time that all workplaces treat pregnant employees with dignity, respect, and fairness.
Legal Advocacy Organization Taking The Fight For Workers’ Rights Online
ABB Staff at PWFA Lobby Day -
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A Better Balance (ABB), a national organization dedicated to advancing justice for workers caring for themselves and their loved ones, will hold a free online event Tuesday, May 11, to celebrate its 15th anniversary.
According to a press release, celebrating progress and the road ahead in tackling today’s unprecedented care crisis will be the theme. Honorees include Chai Feldblum, former Commissioner of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and long-time civil rights leader. Among the speakers scheduled to appear ar Samantha Bee, host of
Not only is this a historic and unprecedented investment, it is desperately needed. Supportive work-family policies such as paid family and medical leave, quality, affordable child care and other related policies are not “nice-to-haves” the workers we talk to everyday need them for their financial and often physical survival.
Since last April, over 3,000 workers have contacted our free work-family legal helpline, and they are disproportionately women of color in low-wage jobs, who are forced to make impossible choices between earning a paycheck and caring for themselves or their loved ones due to major gaps in our nation’s labor and civil rights laws.
New Zealand Law Granting Paid Leave for Miscarriage Sparks Organizing in US
Mo Major holds his 2 1/2-week-old son Maverick on March 26, 2020, in Mount Vernon, New York.
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When New Zealand’s Parliament extended three days of paid leave to workers and their partners following a miscarriage, ectopic pregnancy or stillbirth, as well as to those whose plans to welcome a child through adoption or surrogacy become derailed, it cast a spotlight on how countries throughout the world treat the aftermath of pregnancy loss.
A Better Balance, a U.S. organization working to improve economic security and expand benefits for pregnant and parenting workers, is one of many groups that has weighed in on New Zealand’s expanded leave. “New Zealand’s policy shift opened up an opportunity for conversations about what workers need to care for themselves and their families,” Molly Weston Williamson, the group’s director of Paid Leave and Future of Work, told