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Paid Sick Leave Won’t Hurt Businesses

The city is set to enact a law in April that requires businesses with at least 15 employees to offer paid sick days. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to go even further and require it from businesses with at least five employees. But similar policies [...]

February 5, 2014|Categories: Press Hits|

Paid Sick Leave Won't Hurt Businesses

The city is set to enact a law in April that requires businesses with at least 15 employees to offer paid sick days. Mayor Bill de Blasio wants to go even further and require it from businesses with at least five employees. But similar policies [...]

February 5, 2014|Categories: Press Hits|

What Obama said about Women

Here's what he said and a brief look behind the assertions he made: Pay: "[Women] still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it's an embarrassment. A woman deserves equal pay for equal work." Hard to argue [...]

January 30, 2014|Categories: Press Hits|

Equal Pay for Working Women would Boost the Economy

On the fifth anniversary of the signing of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act—a bill that reinstated women’s ability to contest unlawful pay discrimination and was the first bill signed into law by President Obama—analysis from the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR) finds that the poverty rate for working women would be cut in half if women were paid the same as comparable men, and that greater pay transparency would increase women’s pay.

January 29, 2014|Categories: Press Releases|