Major #PaidLeave4DC milestone announcement!
Earlier this month, the DC Government released the final proposed rules that will govern the District’s forthcoming paid family and medical leave program, set to go into effect in July.
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Posted Announcing our Annapolis 2020 Campaigns
JUFJ members, staff, and partners gathered in Laurel as the new year began to choose our 2020 campaigns for justice in Maryland. Here is what our community chose:
Action Alert: Paid Family Leave should be for everyone
Tell DC that everyone should have access to Paid Family Leave.
#FamilyFirstFridays: We cannot afford to delay Paid Family Leave
On January 29, 2019, Paid Family Leave Campaign Manager Joanna Blotner testified at an oversight hearing about why we need to stay on track to implement universal paid family leave. Here's what [...]
#FamilyFirstFridays: What’s At Stake
As a young woman with two incurable autoimmune diseases, my life is already pretty hard. This year alone, I have endured one hospitalization, two biopsies, two colonoscopies, and five IV drug [...]
#FamilyFirstFridays: First I mourned, then I testified. Now I’m fighting for DC to put families first.
Last year I wrote in an op-ed in the Afro, “[w]hen I hear about D.C. [elected officials] who are trying to destroy our paid leave law, I imagine they must be lucky that they haven’t yet had to [...]
#FamilyFirstFridays: Real Leadership Needed for Women and Families
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#FamilyFirstFridays: Paid Family Leave for All
Ensuring all DC workers are eligible for paid family and medical leave makes the District’s program more fair and robust, and works to the benefit of DC residents and their employers.
#FamilyFirstFridays: Paid leave promotes breastfeeding equity
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#FamilyFirstFridays: Honor Our Elders
I bet when you hear about paid family leave, the first image in your mind is of excited (and probably exhausted) new parents taking time off from work to bond with their infant children. That’s [...]
