- Paid Sick Days Information
Resources
The Fairness Initiative on Low-Wage Work offers many resources to learn about various paid sick days campaigns throughout the country.
Click here for contact information of experts and advocates.
Click here for research and reports on paid sick days.
Click here for podcasts on paid sick days issues.
(See especially podscasts # 26, 28 and 29.)
or contact Phil Sparks, co-director of the Fairness Initiative, at:
philsparks@ccmc.org
202.326.8700
Background
For more information on various local, state and national campaigns, read state summaries from the National Partnership for Women & Families and visit the states'/regions' respective organizations :
- California: (summary) - Paid Sick Days California
- Colorado: (summary) - 9to5 Colorado
- Maine: (summary) - Maine Women's Lobby
- Massachusetts: (summary)
- Milwaukee: (summary) - 9to5 Milwaukee
- New York City: (summary) - Time to Care/NY State Paid Family Leave Coalition
- National: The Healthy Families Act of 2009 is supported by research from the Center for Economic and Policy Research and Human Impact Partners (report: summary | full).
Several organizations provide in-depth overviews of the national and state-by-state picture:
- The National Partnertship for Women & Families has a comprehensive site with overviews of all state/local campaigns.
- The National Partnership also offers a summary sheet of active campaigns.
- 9to5 provides information on several local campaigns.
- Family Values @ Work: A Multi-State Consortium is a network of 11 state coalitions working for paid sick days, family leave insurance and other policies that value families at work.
- Human Impact Partners has performed Health Impact Assessments of proposed policies both nationally and for several states.