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Our testimony for earned sick time in Portland
Seventy-five Portlanders testified in support of earned sick time during a public hearing in Portland City Hall on January 31, 2013. Family Forward Oregon’s Executive Director Andrea Paluso was among them. Here’s what she had to say: “Right now we are facing historic income and wealth inequality in our country. We have never seen a […]
New Report! Evaluating Paid Sick Time in Portland
In January Family Forward Oregon released a report with the Center for American Progress, Evaluating Paid Sick Time: Social, Economic and Health Implications for Portland. In the report, we discuss public health risks, social and community risks, impacts on children’s health and education, how employers are affected by paid sick time, and we take a close look at the San Francisco experience since their paid sick time policy has been in place since 2007. This report is for anyone interested in working family policies, public health, high-road economies, and modernizing workplace policies to really work for families.
Download the full report here: Evaluating Paid Sick Time: Social, Economic and Health Implications for Portland.
Portland proposes sick time policy
In the midst of an intense flu season and a growing number of local norovirus outbreaks, Portland City Commissioner Amanda Fritz has proposed a solution to a community problem that puts every Portlander’s health at risk, reduces workplace productivity, and affects the economic security of working Portlanders (and the families they support) who aren’t allowed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
6.25.12 ~ Talking motherhood + work on OPB’s Think Out Loud
When Anne-Marie Slaughter’s important article in The Atlantic, “Why Women Can’t Have It All,” went live last week, we knew it would be big. And rightly so. Ms. Slaughter is an exceptionally accomplished woman who decided to speak openly, honestly and constructively about the fact that motherhood and work aren’t compatible enough in the U.S. for mothers to reach the highest levels of power and success. Which is a problem not just for American women (and their families), but also for our nation. When women are systematically prevented from reaching real positions of power, it impacts our public policies – affecting everything from childcare programs to war policy. Read on…