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Too many Georgia families are forced to choose between earning a paycheck and taking needed time off from work when they are sick, or a child or other family member is ill. Lack of sick leave puts families, classrooms, and workplaces at risk.
Reasonable measures that allow workers limited time off when they need it for their own medical needs or those of a spouse, child, or parent strengthen both families and businesses. When working parents are offered paid sick days for routine illness and medical appointments, they are more focused and productive at work, their children are more successful in school, and employers gain through increased productivity and lower turnover.
The Georgia Job/Family Collaborative (formerly the Georgia Working Families Coalition), made up of local and statewide organizations, works to expand access to family leave. Currently, the Collaborative is focusing on:
¨ The Parent Protection Act HB 37
¨ The Healthy Families Act S. 1152/ H.R. 2460
The Georgia Job/Family Collaborative has joined seven other state coalitions working to improve public policy for working families nationwide. Long-term goals of this national collaborative are:
Minimum paid leave laws to cover routine leave for all routine things of life— school activity, routine illness, relaxation.
Family Leave Insurance to provide wage replacement for infrequent, but intensive family needs— extended leave for a new child, serious illness of family member or self.
The “Family Values at Work” report documents the consequences on workers, families, businesses and the nation when family values end at the workplace door. It tells the stories of workers suffering from the lack of family-friendly work rules, summarizes key research, and lays out the policy changes urgently needed by U.S. workers and their families.
To read the report and find more resources for action, click here.
To contact us:
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E-mail: gajobfamily@yahoo.com