Dear Friend,
Urge your governor to push for the Providing Americans Insured Days of
Leave (PAID Leave) Act!
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I’ll get right to the point: Without paid sick days and family/medical
leave, governors can’t safely reopen their economies --especially as
pandemic death rates continue to rise and widespread testing for COVID-19
is still not available. [1,2] In fact, right now the majority of workers
still don’t have access to paid leave to stay home to protect themselves
and others if they get sick. [3]
[ [link removed] ]This is not ok. Click here to urge your governor to demand permanent
national paid sick days and family/medical leave as part of the next
COVID-19 recovery package.
If governors are going to SAFELY reopen states we need stronger--and
permanent!!! -- nationwide paid sick days and paid leave laws in place.
Our governors have a direct line to Washington D.C., so let’s urge our
governors to tell Congress and the President to include stronger--and
permanent--nation-wide paid leave and paid sick days in the next COVID-19
recovery package. Congress is starting to work on the next package this
week. There is no time to waste!
[ [link removed] ]→ Tell your governor to use their direct line to Washington to push
for stronger--and permanent--paid sick days and family/medical leave law
in the next recovery package. Add your name now.
Wisconsin’s chaotic primary election perfectly illustrates what happens
when people are prematurely forced into social un-distancing: We learned
that at least seven voters caught the COVID-19 virus when they went out to
cast their ballots. [4] And now, several states are considering reopening
before their state or the nation has the pandemic under control. We need
to build in protections in the next coronavirus relief package!
Unfortunately, the first paid leave law that Congress passed doesn’t go
nearly far enough -- leaving out as many as 96 million working people -
that’s almost a third of the entire nation’s population, including
children. Even worse, these meager paid leave laws expire at the end of
2020, right when we may be facing a new spike in COVID-19.
What we need is the Providing Americans Insured Days of Leave (PAID Leave)
Act -- and we need it in the next relief package that Congress moves
forward. [5] The PAID Leave Act closes the loopholes in the Families First
Act (providing emergency paid leave to eligible workers) that, for
example, excludes any one who works for an employer with more than 500
people! And ridiculously, the expanded family leave that passed can only
be used to care for children who are home because their school or
childcare is closed due to the pandemic. You can’t use the expanded leave
to recover from COVID-19 or to care for a family member who is recovering
from COVID-19 or another serious medical condition. This is not okay! And
furthermore, the limited paid time available in the law that passed so far
all expires at the end of 2020. We need more -- and the proposed PAID
Leave Act makes both paid sick days and paid family and medical leave
permanent because we know the need for these policies doesn’t begin and
end with the coronavirus crisis.
And the need for comprehensive paid family and medical leave and paid sick
days is nationwide. While some states already have statewide paid leave
and paid sick days laws, most states do not, and a patchwork approach
won’t work right now. Access to these life and job saving benefits
shouldn't be a matter of winning the boss lottery or living in the right
ZIP code.
We need to send an urgent message to Washington, D.C. that families need
stronger--and permanent--paid sick days and paid family and medical leave
now. And our nation’s governors are in a prime position to deliver that
message because they have a direct line to Congress and the White House.
[ [link removed] ]→ Urge your governor to push for [ [link removed] ]the Providing Americans Insured
Days of Leave (PAID Leave) Act!
The PAID Leave Act is a strong, history-making fix because it would ensure
that working people have access to 14 days of paid sick time and 12 weeks
of paid family and medical leave to use during the COVID-19 crisis AND any
future public health emergency. It also provides seven paid sick days that
working people can earn annually to use even when there isn’t a public
health emergency. And, it also creates a permanent paid family and
medical leave insurance system to welcome a new child, care for loved
ones, and address serious personal medical issues.
Congress will start working on the next COVID-19 relief package as soon as
this week! And with some states already opening, even before we have
widespread testing, we have no time to waste.
[ [link removed] ]→ After you add your name to our letter urging our governors to use
their direct line to Washington to push for the PAID Leave Act please
forward the link below to your family and friends so they can take action
too. We’ve shown time and time again that the more of us who take action,
the faster the fixes that we all need will be made.
Access to comprehensive and permanent paid sick days and paid family and
medical leave will be crucial for reopening states safely: This virus
hasn’t gone away, and won’t anytime soon, and people will need time to
recover without worrying about losing their jobs.
Together we’re a powerful force for women and families, in good times and
in bad.
- Ruth, Gloria, Tina, Maggie, Casey, Sara, Kristin, and the rest of the
MomsRising/MamásConPoder Team
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P.P.S. [ [link removed] ]Know Your Rights! Click here to find out if you are covered by
the limited paid sick days and paid family leave.
[1] [ [link removed] ]Miami Herald: Plans to reopen Florida begin as COVID-19 deaths
top 600
[2] [ [link removed] ]Vox: The Case for Ending the COVID-19 Pandemic with Mass Testing
[3] [ [link removed] ]KQED: Even With New Federal Coronavirus Bill, Most Workers Get No
Additional Sick Leave
[4] [ [link removed] ]NBC News: 7 corona virus infections linked to in-person voting
[5] [ [link removed] ]The Providing Americans Insured Days of Leave (PAID Leave) Act
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