Sentences with phrase «of paid sick time»

The legislation aims to supply full - time workers with at least seven days of paid sick time annually by imposing a new mandate on Vermont employers.

It has 13 new members, many of whom galloped into office thanks to the support of the Working Families Party — one of the most vocal supporters of paid sick time.

With her help the mayor promptly enacted many pieces of progressive legislation that matter deeply to his base and will impact millions of New Yorkers: an expansion of paid sick time, a reduced speed limit as part of his Vision Zero program, a municipal ID program for undocumented immigrants.

Under the proposed local law, employees would earn one hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked.

According to Local Law «C,» both full - time and part - time workers for employers who have 10 or more employees would be able to earn and use up to 72 hours, or nine days, of paid sick time per year.

The Healthy Families Act, championed by Rep. Rosa DeLauro and Sen. Patty Murray, would allow millions of working Americans to earn up to seven days per year of paid sick time.

Not exact matches

On March 26, 2015, Microsoft announced it would require many of its 2,000 contractors and vendors to provide their employees with 15 days of paid time off for sick days and vacation time.

Sick leave and personal days are a form of employment benefit in the form of paid time off for illness or to deal with a personal / private matter.

Though the number of companies expanding their paid parental leave benefits is rising, Sandberg acknowledged that it's less common for employees to get paid time off to care for sick loved ones, saying that the US needs public policies «that make it easier for people to care for their children and aging parents and for families to mourn and heal after loss.»

On the afternoon of Monday, January 31, human - resources manager Brown sat anxiously by his phone, waiting for a call from Stack, who was negotiating with Harvester at his lawyer's office in downtown Springfield.Since SRC did not want to assume Harvester's liabilities to employees for sick pay and vacation time, everyone in the plant had to be terminated as soon as the buyout was completed.

«I think economic inequality is shameful — both pay inequality, and the lack of sick time and support systems for low income women with children.»

In February of this year, Facebook (fb) expanded its employee benefits to include 20 days of paid leave to grieve the loss of an immediate family member and up to six weeks of paid time to take care of sick relatives.

Employees receive 27 days of paid time off, a combination of vacation, holiday and sick days, from day one.

More than one - third of private - sector workers do not have a single paid sick day, and only 13 percent of private - sector workers have paid family and medical leave.7 Furthermore, it is often the workers who can least afford unpaid time off from work who do not have access to these policies.

«Women with children are often excluded from full participation in the labour market due to challenges in balancing work and family life, or they work part - time, which often means lower wages and fewer benefits, including lack of a pension, paid vacation and sick leave, as well as less job stability,» the document states.

If anyone here is sick and tired of all the silliness and nonsense in religion today and want a real church, I invite you to check out mormon.org where you can talk (not to a paid professional), but to ordinary members who volunteer their time for free because they just believe in serving and want to answer your questions.

Now imagine that, like a third of American workers, you don't get any paid sick days, so every time one of your children gets an ear infection or catches the flu, your pay is docked for taking time off to care for them.

Experts suggest part of the reason the flu is so widespread is because many people do not have paid sick time, and thus simply can not afford to stay home when they're feeling ill.

Full time employees receive a number of competitive benefits, including Medical, Dental, Vision insurance, Basic Life Insurance, Short - Term Disability and Long - Term Disability insurance, 401 (k), Vacation, Sick, and Holiday pay, and Fitness Reimbursement.

I'm so sick of people telling those of us who are disgruntled fans to relax and give this club time to correct itself... for anyone who believes that taking a wait - and - see approach is appropriate at this juncture they should take a good long look at themselves in the mirror because they are a big part of the problem... no other «big» club's fans would stand for this shit for nearly as long as we have... think about it, we've witnessed a changing of the guard at every major club in England, Spain, France and Germany in the last several years because those «big» clubs failed to live up to expectations (Barcelona, Real Madrid, Bayern, PSG, Chelsea, ManU, ManCity etc...)... for some reason, many fans have become as fragile as our current manager, believing that there couldn't possibly be a suitable replacement, even though everyone of these clubs have found multiple replacements and still achieved far more than our club... this mindset has been created by an organization that has been milking it's fans, telling countless lies (no world class players available) and lowering expectations every since they rolled out the biggest lie of all: that we couldn't spend because of the new stadium but once it was paid off we could compete with any team in the world... this organization is rotting from the inside out and if we don't demand that those in charge put soccer first this despicable behaviour won't end with Wenger's ridiculous 2 year contract... I think the real fear isn't that a suitable replacement doesn't exist, but that this organization is so money hungry and poorly mismanaged that we will sink even lower by choosing our next coach the same way they choose our players, on the cheap... even so, we need to see what mustache will do if left to his own devices so he will have to show his true colours... only then can we purge this club and start anew

most player out there are machineries they don't was not to play for badge tgr want highest bidder I can't imagine use pay one stupid person running around for 90minutes 300k per week for the name of a world class striker it make me sick... I know with time we WL find the right playerfor the positions left to cover.

In all fairness though we are five games in with the transfer window just over and we're already short of defensive minded players, it's great being positive but for a lot of fans whatever wenger does now it'll never be right, about two years ago for ever negative wenger comment there were five positive now that is the opposite.i'm a season ticket holder and I pay a small fortune watching us home and away, I was more than willing to give arsene time to turn it around, to build another team, but honestly I am sick of it, # 8million a year to hear the same of excuses.

I started googling way back in may who could we be buying gonzalo higuian, julio cesar and wayne rooney but realize going by history wenger just as no interest in buying world class players, he wants 2 buy d grade players and turn them up to koscienly nd nasri that will take years while da arsenal faithful pay handsome figures for dismal performances, fans allowed wenger 2 get away when he gets away with these lucky matches of fenerbache been strong on paper but a waste of tym on the pitch, also it happen at bayern but they put a slighty weak team but wenger runt his mouth around of how good da team was after that 2 - 0 win, not forgetting it was bould that got the team defense looking solid while wenger moan about referee decisions and no blame on team, I just feel we (arsenal) have allowed wenger and co to misuse us, so now our main target aim is benzema yet giroud plays more often than him for france, can any1 see how wenger is lowing our standards and expectations at arsenal, I wil be over da moon if wenger does not sign an extension wit us, after the gilberto days and disaterous results and teams we play, his approach to the game defensely which is pathetic and his annoying behaviour.So what if manu and chelski haven't really bought they are already strong it was seen last week now we should be worried about our selves since that villa defeat, jst imagine what the man's and london money maniac's are goin 2 do to us, I can see it already coming from wenger, if we find the right player we will buy him, after sept2, we didn't find da right player but the squad can challenge for the title, its so sick having 2 hear that crap, just take him psg, I just wish the fans would say we had enough of this bullshit transfer policies its time we stood up against these pigs of directors by protesting!

It was paid according to union contracts, under which police employees receive payouts for up to 120 days of vacation time and 300 days of sick time.

At that time, the one - time liberal darling who took on Lieberman over the Iraq War drew the wrath of labor unions for his reservations about a bill mandating employers provide paid sick leave.

«It would have helped tremendously the people who work in certain industries without paid sick leave such as the restaurant industry who don't have the luxury of taking time off,» Mark - Viverito said.

About 45,000 of the telecom giant's workers, represented by the Communications Workers of America and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, walked off the job on Aug. 7 in protest against Draconian concessions demanded by the highly profitable company, including eliminating pensions for new hires; slashing paid sick time and holidays; and increasing employees» contributions to their health care costs.

«Speaker Quinn has shown time and time again that she shares Mayor Bloomberg's vision of New York City, only addressing the needs of New Yorkers on crucial issues such as livable wages, paid sick leave and working conditions when forced to by protests, bad press and spiraling approval ratings,» Arthur Cheliotes, President of CWA Local 1180, said in a statement.

Quinn's had a bumpy few weeks: Caving on a paid - sick - leave City Council bill after stalling it for months, being the subject of a tough - but - accurate Times story detailing her temper.

Last week, the New York State Assembly passed a one - house bill creating a program that would allow workers to take time off to care for a new child or sick loved one while receiving a portion of their usual pay.

CITY HALL — Advocates of a mandatory paid sick leave bill upped the pressure on City Council Speaker Christine Quinn to a fever pitch Wednesday, accusing her of being complicit in the death of a young father who died of stomach cancer — because he couldn't take time off from work to recover from his treatment, his widow alleged.

Across Midtown, the smallest of of the Big Apple's businesses say they're getting ready for the City Council's proposed paid - sick - leave bill, which, according to a compromise announced by Council Speaker Christine Quinn last Thursday, would require companies of 15 or more employees to provide five paid sick days for each full - time worker by October 2015.

All three proposals would provide up to 12 weeks of paid leave, with varying levels of reimbursement for an employee taking the time off to care for a sick loved one or a newborn.

The Times Union reported that the Institute for Women's Policy Research estimates that «roughly 40 percent of workers living in Albany County have no paid sick days.»

At the same time, the party's members in the City Council are pushing hard to guarantee paid sick leave to employees of city companies and to restore funding for student MetroCards.

The legislative intent of the bill is to «ensure that all workers in Albany County can address their own health and safety needs... and the needs of their families...» The legislature found that access to paid sick time promotes a healthy and safe county, reduces the spread of illness, and provides greater flexibility to employees with caregiving responsibilities.

He said he also likes the governor's revised paid family leave proposal, which would phase in a rate of 2/3 of a worker's pay for up to 12 weeks of time off to care for a newborn or sick family member.

The reasons for allowing an employee to take paid sick time include: employee's short term illness; time to deal with medical, legal or relocation issues related to domestic violence or child abuse; and to care for a family member when ill or in need of medical care.

It would also end early retirement, force employees to pay twice as much toward their pension, and end the «padding» of pensions through overtime pay, sick time and other means.

Cuomo now wants to give New Yorkers up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a sick loved one or be home with a new child.

The program will allow workers to get paid a portion of their earnings while they take time off to tend to a new child or sick relative.

About 36 percent of workers in the county lack paid sick time, and the committee says low - income and part - time workers are especially unlikely to be covered.

In an attempt to move the stalled paid sick leave bill, advocates showed up at Central Park yesterday to point out carriage horses get time off (the result of a bill passed earlier this year), but people aren't guaranteed sick time.

The New York state Assembly has again passed legislation to allow workers to take up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child or a sick loved one.

ALBANY, N.Y. — The New York state Assembly has again passed a paid family leave bill that would allow workers to take up to 12 weeks of paid time off to care for a new child or a sick loved one.

Yesterday evening, Quinn's camp announced that the Council speaker had brokered a compromise on «paid sick time» legislation, resulting in a bill that will require some New York City businesses to provide a small number of paid sick days to their employees.

In fighting for paid sick - time, Landis led a petition drive to sign up supporters of the legislation, and he also recruited small and locally based businesses and nonprofits to join the coalition created in support of the bill.

«We're certainly thankful that the council took into consideration some of the business community's concerns,» said Carl Hum, president of the Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce — one member of a business coalition fighting the paid sick time bill.

Meanwhile, the employee - funded state paid family leave program will offer 12 weeks of paid time off for workers who want to take care of a sick relative or spend time with a newborn.

With negotiations at a standstill, the de Blasio administration played hardball: the Office of Labor Relations reduced the carpenters» paid time off to almost nothing, down from a combined 39 vacation and sick days, and ended annuity payments.