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Cheers to 90 years!
In: Equal Pay|Events|Fair Pay|Labor|Laura Harper|Maine Women's Agenda|Maine Women's Lobby|Paid sick days|Women's Leadership
26 Aug 2010After nearly a century of struggle, on August 26th, 1920, the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. In 90 years women voters have made a lot of progress – we’ve seen pioneering women like Shirley Chisholm, Hillary Clinton, and Margaret Chase Smith make bids for the presidency, and we have passed landmark legislation [...]
Mark Horton of Woodman’s Bar and Grill shares his story about why he provides paid sick days to all of his employees on the national “Working Families Story Bank.” Mark says that providing Paid Sick days, has “been great for employee well being and great for employee retention.” Does this leave you inspired to share [...]
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Time to Make Family Leave Affordable
2 Aug 2010August 5th marks the 17th anniversary of the implementation of the Family and Medical Leave Act – when federal law for the first time acknowledged that having a family shouldn’t cost workers their job. Sadly, for too many people in this country, taking a leave still costs too much. Nearly one in ten Americans have [...]
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- Tags: Family Medical Leave Insurance, Family Values at Work
Where Small Business Prospers
In: Family Caregiver Protection|Labor|Laura Harper|Maine Women's Lobby
29 Jul 2010Here at the Maine Women’s Lobby, we’ve been researching family leave insurance for nearly ten years. It’s passed in three other states (California, Washington, and New Jersey), and many more are actively working on legislation. Right now, in Maine, when working families welcome a new baby or face a serious illness (think horrendous car accident [...]
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- Tags: family leave insurance, maine women, work-family
Paid Leave Around the World
In: Labor|Paid sick days
25 Jun 2010The International Labour Organization has just come out with a study on paid sick leaves that finds it is “not only affordable, but pays off in terms of health and economic gains for employers, workers, and the economy at large.” Beneftis vary, but overall 145 countries provide some form of paid sick leave. Unfortunately, paid [...]
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Some of us in a photo with Lilly after her inspiring speech! Stay tuned for more on Lilly’s visit later this week.
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- Tags: Equal Pay, Paycheck fairness
Statement of Sarah Standiford, Executive Director: “Despite clear benefits to Maine people and businesses, today the Labor Committee rejected a bill to establish the critical protection of paid sick days for Maine people. In a major blow to Maine workers and their families, today, the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Labor voted Majority Ought Not [...]
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- Tags: L.D. 1665, Labor Committee, Maine State House, Paid sick days
Status of L.D. 1665
In: Labor|Maine Women's Lobby|Paid sick days|Senate President Libby Mitchell
22 Mar 2010By now you may have heard the news: the Maine Legislature will not take up a bill to provide paid sick days for Maine workers. Without support from some members of the labor committee the sponsor, Libby Mitchell, committed to making sure this committee doesn’t leave Maine people with nothing, proposed an amendment where workers [...]
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- Tags: L.D. 1665, Labor, Paid sick days, working families
Work-life balance in the news
In: Labor|Obama|Paid sick days
15 Mar 2010While driving to the office this morning I heard some comforting words from our First Lady, Michelle Obama. Quoted on a NPR piece, More Employers Make Room for Work-life Balance, the first lady commented that, “this isn’t just about family balance, this is about making workplaces stronger and attracting the most qualified people.” It’s true! [...]
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- Tags: Michelle Obama, Paid sick days, work-life balance
last week our lobbyist, Laura Harper, testified in support of LD 192, “An Act To Index the State Minimum Wage to Inflation.” This legislation would adjust Maine’s minimum wage based on changes in the federal Consumer Price Index for the Northeast. With passage, this would put Maine among the 10 other states that also index [...]
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- Tags: Laura Harper, Miniumum wage
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- Linda Mitchell: Make Lilly Right is a campaign, started by two women in Seattle, to get one million women to each se [...]
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