Providing paid sick days is expected to save Philadelphia employers more than half a million per year, according to a new analysis by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research (IWPR). The city’s proposed paid sick days legislation under Chapter 9-3300, would not only reduce costs to employers in Philadelphia, but would also reduce the spread of contagious diseases yielding further public health costs savings.
WASHINGTON -- Sen. Barbara A. Mikulski is calling on the Obama administration to prohibit federal contractors from retaliating against employees who discuss salaries -- a new twist on a key provision of the pay equality legislation the Maryland Democrat has sought for years. In a [...]
“Politics Nation,” Rev. Al Sharpton’s show, cited IWPR research in this segment on the Paycheck Fairness Act; specifically, our finding that women make less than men in all of the most common occupations. Watch>>
Staying home with the flu can be hard for workers, but it's better for you and others. Rachel Figueroa-Levin, 26, doesn't work outside her New York home and yet she's worried that the nasty flu circulating in the city's workplaces is going to make it [...]
Congress is likely to remain in session until Christmas Eve -- wrangling over the looming sequester and expiration of the Bush tax cuts. The country doesn't have enough money, or doesn't spend it right, or the rich have too much of it, or the middle [...]
In the Wall Street Journal last week, Josh Mitchell reported that "Women account for a third of the nation's lawyers and doctors, a major shift from a generation ago." The report was triggered by a new analysis of occupations from the Census Bureau, which showed [...]
