... Dan Wolf, a Democratic state senator from Harwich and the founder of the regional airline Cape Air, considers sick time a pro-business measure. Cape Air, which started with a handful of employees and now has more than 1,200, has always offered the benefit. He [...]

Conventional wisdom holds that 2014 will be a bad year for Democrats nationally. Among Democratic voters, there has been considerably more enthusiasm for would-be candidates in 2016 than actual candidates in the fast-approaching November midterms. But a large survey of 4,507 Americans from the nonpartisan [...]

Less than ten years ago, the United States didn’t have any requirements that workers get paid sick days if they or their family members fell ill. That made us a real outlier among developed countries, as more than 20 other peers have national paid sick [...]

Massachusetts may soon become the third state to require employers to pay their workers for taking time off while sick. A statewide ballot measure in November would give one hour of sick time for every 30 hours worked, with an upward limit of 40 hours [...]

At the start of 2013, most American workers faced a 2 percent cut in their take-home pay, as the 2011-2012 Social Security payroll tax holiday came to an end. Conventional wisdom tells us that the public revolts when taxes go up. But in this case, [...]

By now, you must have read that Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told a room full of women that instead of asking for a raise, they should trust in the system and “karma” to resolve the current gender wage gap. “That might be one of the [...]