Transcript: H1N1 AND PAID SICK DAYS:DEBRA L. NESS

Article: SEN. KENNEDY CHAMPIONS PAID SICK DAYS ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Committee held a hearing on the ways paid sick days would impact everyday working ... private-sector workers are denied paid sick days and of the lowest quarter of wage earners, 79% have no paid sick days at all. The Healthy Families ...

Article: CHAIRMAN KENNEDY CHAMPIONS PAID SICK DAYS ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 13, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Committee held a hearing on the ways paid sick days would impact everyday working ... private-sector workers are denied paid sick days and of the lowest quarter of wage earners, 79% have no paid sick days at all. The Healthy Families ...

Article: REP. DELAURO COMMENTS ON MERRILL LYNCH'S DECISION TO CUT NUMBER ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... decision to cut the number of annual paid sick days from 40 to 3. DeLauro is the ... more employees to provide seven paid sick days to care for their own and their ... C. "Cutting the number of paid sick days employers can take without consequence ...

Article: Access to Paid Sick Days Vastly Unequal
Dollars & Sense;  September 1, 2007 ;     447 words ... ... workers in the United States have access to paid sick leave; 43% have no paid sick days. When these workers get sick, they are forced ... only 16% of low-wage workers have access to paid sick days, versus 79% of high-wage workers. In recent ...

Article: WORKING MOMS TO SPEAK OUT FOR PAID SICK DAYS
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  May 8, 2008 ;     554 words ... ... which would allow all California workers to earn paid sick days. Without paid sick days, millions of working mothers in Los Angeles ... in the Los Angeles City Council supporting the paid sick days legislation. The City Council is expected to ...

Article: REP. DELAURO: PAID SICK DAYS ARE NECESSITY ...
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 17, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... pass legislation providing for paid sick days for all American workers in the ... to care for a family member. "Paid sick days has always been a good, common ... was passionately committed: paid sick days. I believe that paid sick days ...

Transcript: H1N1 AND PAID SICK DAYS:ROSA L. DELAURO
Congressional Testimony;  November 10, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... Senator Kennedy, was passionately committed: paid sick days. I believe that paid sick days are a basic question of right and wrong, as ... industry, where only 15 percent of workers have paid sick days. Suffice to say, food service is not an industry ...