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Statement

MomsRising Applauds Mayor de Blasio for Helping New York City #LeadonLeave

January 7, 2016
Paid Family & Medical Leave

Lisa Lederer, 202-371-1996

STATEMENT OF Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner, Executive Director and CEO, MomsRising, on Mayor de Blasio Signing into Law Paid Parental Leave For New York City Employees
“With Mayor de Blasio’s signature, New York City is taking the lead on supporting working parents who need time off to care for a newborn baby or to take care of an ill family member or their own illness. Starting this year, New York City employees will be able to take parental leave without a reduction in their paychecks.
 
“We applaud Mayor de Blasio for leading by example and recognizing that paid leave policies are win-win-win. They make for healthier and more stable working families, and are also good for employers, our communities, and our economy.
 
“This is the kind of forward-thinking workplace policy that we need to have for all workers. No one should ever have to make the impossible choice between staying home with a newborn or a sick child and a paycheck. We hope this program provides momentum for New York to be the next state to pass a state-wide paid leave program that ensures every working person has access to paid family leave.”
 

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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.