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Paid Sick Days

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Paid sick days are a matter of economic security. No mother should have to choose between her job and taking care of a sick child. We are working to make earned paid sick days a right for all. 

Can you believe it? Nearly one in three private-sector workers – and 70% of low wage workers cannot earn a single paid sick day.
This means that people are often forced to choose between working sick and losing pay - or even their jobs. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends staying home when we’re sick with common illnesses like the flu, and keeping sick children out of school. Workers without paid sick days don’t have that option, and we all risk getting sick.
 
Over 145 other countries have paid sick leave. Moms are working to put the US on the map. We've had major wins in New York City, Connecticut, Portland, Seattle and San Francisco and we won't stop until everyone has the ability to earn paid sick days!
 
Read MomsRising supporters' personal stories on paid sick days:
As a full-time public school teacher and single mother, I am grateful for my paid sick days. But day after day, I see my own students struggle through a school day when they should be home in bed sick, not at a school desk, but their parents must be at work, because they don’t have paid sick days...Read more
Kim, Missoula, MT

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SIGN NOW: No more impossible choices, Congress should pass Paid Leave and Paid Sick Time laws.

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/32065/?source=action">SIGN NOW: No more impossible choices, Congress should pass Paid Leave and Paid Sick Time laws.</a>

Everyone benefits from comprehensive paid leave and paid sick time policies. Workers are able to care for themselves and their loved ones, businesses have increased employee morale and retention and our economy thrives. Paid leave and paid sick time works for all.

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Working families deserve Paid Leave and Paid Sick Time.

HISTORIC SENATE HEARING ON PAID LEAVE → now we need to take action!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/35378/?source=action">HISTORIC SENATE HEARING ON PAID LEAVE → now we need to take action!</a>

Join us in letting Congress know that we will not settle for anything less than a national comprehensive paid family and medical leave program for all.

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Families like yours and mine deserve time to care for a new child, for themselves and their loved ones when a serious health crisis strikes. We deserve a policy like paid family and medical leave.

SIGN NOW: You helped make this victory possible: A national Paid Sick Days standard advances out of Committee!

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/33606/?source=action">SIGN NOW: You helped make this victory possible: A national Paid Sick Days standard advances out of Committee!</a>

Whether a worker needs paid sick days to recover from their own illness, to care for a loved one or is a survivor of domestic violence, stalking or sexual assault and needs to use their paid sick days to recover or seek assistance related to an incident, all workers deserve paid sick days.

Take Action!
All workers deserve and need paid sick days

SIGN NOW: Keep families safe at home and in the workplace, urge Congress to fund paid sick days and paid family leave

<a href="https://action.momsrising.org/cms/view_by_page_id/23424/?source=action">SIGN NOW: Keep families safe at home and in the workplace, urge Congress to fund paid sick days and paid family leave</a>

Congress needs to act now and reinstate paid sick days and paid family leave for all working families.

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Working families are hanging on but need more support. They need emergency paid sick days and paid family leave now.