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2012 was a big year for FFO!
We accomplished a lot in 2012! Here’s a smattering of our great work together: Workplace Flexibility: We hosted our second annual Great Ideas @ Work luncheon, where we honored 25 Oregon employers for modernizing their workplaces to make work work in today’s economy, for today’s families. We also awarded the second annual Family Forward Leadership Award to a true […]
Earned Sick Time for All Oregonians
We have a problem in Oregon: Too few people earn sick time at work, but we all get sick. A shocking40% of private-sector workers and 80% of low-income workers have no paid sick days from their job – not one. Every one of us gets sick occasionally, but not everyone gets the time they need to recover or care for sick family members – and it affects all of us.
And We Have a Winner – Family Foward Leadership Awards
Our 2012 Family Forward Leadership Award goes to Full Access, a nonprofit agency based in Eugene – with services in five Oregon counties – that provides case management and fiscal services for adults with disabilities. The workplace flexibility policies in place for ALL Full Access employees are making work work in a new way — a […]
Announcing 25 Flexible Workplace Award Winners
The future is full of flexible workplaces – because it has to be. Winners: Anvil Media Inc Cascade Employers Association Boly:Welch Consulting and RecruitingCascade Employers Association — Salem, OR Climax Portable Machining and Welding Systems Deloitte – Oregon offices FMYI, Inc. Full Access gDiapers Hawthorne Auto Clinic, Inc. Independent Actuaries, Inc. Isler CPA LLC KPMG […]
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Sick Days in the Portland Tribune
On October 11, 2012, Portland Tribune reporter Steve Law shared a story about a Portland woman working without paid sick time. Two of every 5 private-sector workers in and around Portland aren’t allowed to earn paid sick time while they work, which adversely affects their health, their workplaces, and our whole community’s health. Read the full article here. You’ll hear one woman’s story of life without paid sick days and find out about a forward-thinking Portland restaurant that is bucking its industry norm and putting letting its workers earn paid sick time.
NEW REPORT: Paid Sick Days
The Center for American Progress released a new fact sheet on the need for paid sick days in the United States in August, 2012. The report authors point out how our outdated work and family policies aren’t working for today’s families. Read the full post here.
2012 National Paid Leave Summit
We were recently in Washington, DC representing Oregon at the National Summit on Paid Sick Days and Paid Family Leave, a productive event hosted by two of our strong national partners: the National Partnership for Women & Families and the team at Family Values @ Work. Read more here.
TIMBERS! Let’s watch some soccer, folks.
Now that summer’s (finally!) here, it’s a perfect time to take in a Timbers soccer game with the kids! Don’t miss your chance to get affordable Timbers tickets while also supporting the work that Family Forward Oregon does to create smart workplace and public policies for today’s families. The Portland Timbers have kindly offered us tickets to a Timbers “Reserve” game on Sunday, July 29th at 2 PM. Each general admission ticket costs you just $10, and a portion of every ticket you buy goes to support our work for Oregon families. A clear win-win.
Let’s talk about mothers & work!
We’re hosting a conversation about work and family next week in Portland and we want you to join us! We were inspired by Anne-Marie Slaughter’s recent article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All” (and the many, many responses to it), because she raises some important questions about mothers and work in the U.S. that we grapple with often. She also makes some very critical points about how and why our workplace and public policies aren’t in sync with today’s families.
The way we see it, our dark-age family policies prevent too many mothers from remaining financially stable, engaging with their children, and reaching leadership positions (where we need them!). Great fodder for a hearty conversation!
Read more about the event here.
Our thoughts on Anne-Marie Slaughter’s article in The Atlantic
Anne-Marie Slaughter’s recent article in The Atlantic about the structural barriers to mothers truly succeeding (and even surviving) in the workplace, “Why Women Still Can’t Have It All,” was like a lit match touched to a fuse. To any mother in America today, it’s obvious why: day in and day out we are forced to decide what’s more important: our work (and the financial security it brings our families) or our kids. The result ranges from poverty and inequality to under-parented kids to a real lack of women leaders in American business and government. Keep reading here.