Article: Group lobbies paid leave for workers who donate an organ.

Article: AST Encourages Employers to Adopt Paid Leave ...
Business Wire;  May 19, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... MD, president of the AST. Paid leave could also help ease the ... weeks for liver and lung. AST Program Aims to Boost Paid-Leave Participation Currently ... their employers to adopt paid leave programs. The AST provides technical assistance ...

Article: AST to Address Human Resources Groups Nationwide to ...
PR Newswire;  September 24, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... in establishing and implementing a paid leave program. It is AST's position that paid leave, if offered by employers, could ... up to 12 weeks for liver and lung. AST Program Aims to Boost Paid Leave Participation Currently, at least ...

Article: AST to Address Human Resources Groups Nationwide to ...
U.S. Newswire;  September 24, 2008 ;     657 words ... ... in establishing and implementing a paid leave program. It is AST's position that paid leave, if offered by employers, could ... up to 12 weeks for liver and lung. AST Program Aims to Boost Paid Leave Participation Currently, at least ...

Article: AST launches paid-leave campaign for living ...
Renal & Urology News;  August 1, 2008 ;     443 words ... ... of Transplantation (AST) has launched an outreach ... employers to grant paid leave to workers who act ... transplantation, according to an AST prepared statement ... and corporations have paid-leave policies for live donors, AST says. In addition ...

Article: AST launches effort to tout employee leave and organ ...
Transplant News;  October 1, 2008 ;     610 words ... ... press release. The AST position on paid leave is that if it is ... corporations have paid leave policies for live donors through AST. Twenty-nine states ... government has had a paid leave policy in place since 1999. The AST program provides ...

Article: AST launches program to remove financial disincentives for ...
Transplant News;  January 12, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... become a live organ donor. AST is asking its members to participate ... the organ donation process," AST said in a letter to members ... 1999 extended the amount of paid leave for the purpose of being a live ... Virginia and Wisconsin. The AST's "sample leave policy ...

Article: Program encourages paid leave for organ ...
Internal Medicine News;  August 15, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... the American Society of Transplantation (AST), said in a statement. "This program ... General Hospital, Boston. Promotion of the AST program comes at a time when more Americans ... thanks to these selfless individuals." The AST introduced its employee leave and organ ...