From NETWORK:
The Healthy Families Act (H.R.2460/S.1152) will allow workers to earn up to seven paid sick days per year. These can be used for personal illness, taking care of an ill family member, birth of a child or adoption, and recovery from sexual assault or domestic violence.Higher paid workers often receive a paid sick leave benefit, but lower-wage workers who can't afford to miss a day's pay usually do not. For example, nearly 80% of food service workers have no paid sick leave. This is surely damaging to the common good.Paid sick leave is particularly critical during flu season, when low wage workers are often faced with the choice of going to work when they are sick (or sending a sick child to school), or missing a day and losing wages needed for food and medicine. You can send an e-mail via NETWORK's website -- an appropriate message will come up, based on your Representative and Senators' co-sponsorship status, either urging them to co-sponsor or thanking them for already being a co-sponsor.
Click here to send a message to your Representative: http://capwiz.com/networklobby/issues/alert/?alertid=14327851&type=CO
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