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Family Play Day Will Support Paid Sick Days for Montgomery County Families

June 4, 2015
Paid Sick Days

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

This weekend, Montgomery County families will come together for a special family Play Day featuring storytime, healthy treats, face painting, animal balloons, arts and crafts and much more, while they show their support for paid sick days legislation in Montgomery County.
 
The event, hosted by MomsRising and Jews United for Justice, will be held:
 
3pm – 4:30pm, Sunday, June 7
Ohr Kodesh Congregation
8300 Meadowbrook Lane
Chevy Chase, MD
 
Another Play Day will be held from 2pm to 3:30pm on the same day in Gaithersburg, Maryland at Kehilat Shalom located at 9915 Apple Ridge Road.
 
The Chevy Chase Play Day will feature reading of the award-winning storybook, A Sick Day for Amos McGee by Philip C. Stead.  
 
In Montgomery County, four in ten workers do not have access to paid sick days that would allow them to stay home to take care of a sick child or other family member, or tend to their own health. That leaves workers with the impossible choice between going to work sick and possibly sending a child to school sick or losing a day’s pay or possibly a job.
 
New legislation under consideration by the Montgomery County Council would ensure that all Montgomery County's working parents have paid time off to care for children or to get better themselves. Bill 60-14, the Earned Safe and Sick Leave bill would allow all workers to earn one hour of leave for every 30 hours worked, with a maximum of 56 hours a year.
 
This event is part of Mission Possible: Building a Strong Economy for Families, Women and the Nation, a national campaign coordinated by a coalition of more than 30 national organizations. It is one of dozens being held across the country this year between Mother's Day and Father's Day.
 
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Jews United for Justice leads Washington- and Baltimore-area Jews to act on our shared values by pursuing justice and equality in our local community.
 

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MomsRising.org is an on-the-ground and online grassroots organization of more than a million people who are working to increase family economic security, decrease discrimination against women and moms, and to build a nation where businesses and families can thrive. Established in 2006, MomsRising and its members are organizing and speaking out to improve public policy and to change the national dialogue on issues that are critically important to America’s families, including criminal justice reform, immigration policy reform, and gun safety. MomsRising is working for paid family and medical leave, affordable, high quality childcare and early learning, and for an end to the wage and hiring discrimination which penalizes women — particularly moms and women of color — and so many others. MomsRising advocates for access to healthy food for all kids, health care for all, earned sick days, and breastfeeding rights so that all children can have a healthy start. MomsRising maintains a Spanish language website: MamásConPoder.org. Sign up online at www.MomsRising.org — and follow us on our blog, and on Twitter and Facebook.