Paid Family Leave Forum

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

A Better Balance is convening a forum with the National Center for Children in Poverty and the New York State Paid Leave Coalition, bringing together researchers, advocates, and stakeholders across the domains of early childhood, public health, and economic security to discuss and advance paid family leave.

When: April 25, 2012

Where: Ford Foundation, New York, NY

To receive updates about the forum including invitation, agenda, and panelist list, please contact:

Kalyani Thampi
215 West 125th St, 3rd Floor
New York, NY 10027
T: 646.284.9619
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Current Trends and Cutting Edge Issues in Family Responsibilities Discrimination Law CLE

Tuesday, February 28, 2012, 3:00pm to 6:00pm.

The Families @ Work Legal Clinic, co-sponsored by A Better Balance and Outten & Golden LLP, offers free consultations to low-income workers facing problems on the job related to their family responsibilities. Join us to learn about our clinic and how you can successfully represent pregnant women, working parents and caregivers in their workplace disputes.

Our panel will cover how federal, state and local laws can be used to protect family caregivers and how temporary disability and unemployment insurance impact pregnant women and new mothers. Case studies will highlight strategies for complex cases and tie together overlapping regulatory regimes.

Click here for additional information.

Outten & Golden, LLP, 3 Park Avenue, 29th Floor

Please RSVP to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. by February 24th
Space is limited

New York City Paid Sick Time Campaign -- Press Conference with Healthcare & Policy Experts

Thursday, February 16, 2012, Arrive at 12:45pm for 1:00pm Press Conference

Please join A Better Balance and the New York City Paid Sick Days Coalition for a press conference at Bellevue Hospital.  At the event, healthcare providers and policy experts will be highlighting new data showing that the NYC Paid Sick Time Act would provide millions of dollars in annual emergency room savings for NYC Hospitals.

Click here for a flyer with additional information (and here for a Spanish language version).

Bellevue Hospital, New York City

Assemble on the West Side of 1st Avenue near 27th Street.

Roundtable CLE Presentation on Work/Family Issues and the Law

Wednesday, January 25, 2012, 8:30am to 10:00am

A Better Balance cordially invites you to a CLE to learn about cutting edge legal issues and trends including pregnancy and caregiver discrimination, family leave issues, the enforcement of the new Domestic Workers Bill of Rights and more!

Click here for the program and additional information.

When:
January 25, 2012, 8:30am to 10:00am

Where:
Morrison & Foerster, LLP
1290 Avenue of the Americas @ 51st Street, New York City

RSVP Required by January 23, 2012 to Jaclyn Stoll at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or 212-430-5982.

Rally to Relaunch the New York City Paid Sick Days Campaign 

Wednesday, January 18, 2012, Meet at 11:30am for 12:00pm Rally

A million and a half working New Yorkers have no paid sick time to care for themselves or sick children. On Wednesday, January 18, 2012, A Better Balance and the New York City Paid Sick Days Coalition will hold a rally at City Hall to relaunch the paid sick time campaign. The coalition is larger, stronger, and more determined than ever to pass the NYC Paid Sick Time Act in 2012!

Click here for directions and additional details. For a flyer in Spanish, click here.

When:
January 18, 2012, Meet at 11:30am for 12:00pm rally.

Where:
Steps of City Hall
New York City

Pay Equity Public Hearing

Monday, December 12, 2011 11:00am

Dina Bakst will be a witness at a public hearing on pay equity in New York State before Assmblymembers Keith L.T. Wright, Peter J. Abbate, Jr., Steve Englebright, Andrew D. Hevesi, and Ellen Jaffee.

http://www.assembly.state.ny.us/comm/Labor/20111128/

When:
December 12, 2011 11:00am

Where:
250 Broadway, Assembly Hearing Room 1923, 19th Floor
New York , NY 10010

Paid Sick Leave in New York City

Tuesday, December 6, 2011 9:30am - 11:00am

Economic Justice and Social Welfare Network (formerly the Welfare Reform Network) Presents:

Paid Sick Leave In New York City

featuring:

Sherry Leiwant

Co-Founder & Co-President
A Better Balance: The Work and Family Legal Center

One key challenge for New Yorkers in low-wage jobs is a lack of paid sick leave. Over a million people in NYC don't receive any, and we all suffer (both economically and health-wise) as a result. Our meeting on December 6th will feature a conversation on sick-leave legislation that is currently before the New York City Council, and outline how advocates can take action on this issue.

We'll also have updates on EJSWN Committee efforts, and other timely issues related to economic justice and income-security-related issues.

http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6584/p/salsa/event/common/public/?event_KEY=33488

When:
December 6, 2011 9:30am-11:00am

Where:
Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies
281 Park Avenue South (at 22nd Street)
New York , NY 10010

Domestic Workers Convention

Saturday, December 3, 2011 9:00am - 6:00pm

Join hundreds of nannies, housekeepers, & elderly caregivers to build our power for greater rights and respect! In 2010, New York domestic workers made history when we passed the nation's first Domestic Worker's Bill of Rights. We won basic rights and protections where none had existed. Now we must build upon our victory and raise the industry standards!

Convention Highlights:

Free Legal Consultations (by ABB and other legal organizations)

Workers Rights Workshops

Negotiation Tools & Techniques

Domestic Workers General Assembly

Guest Speakers & Door Prizes!

When:
December 3, 2011 9:00am-6:00pm

Where:
New York Academy of Medicine - 2nd Floor Hall - Corner of 103rd Street & 5th Avenue

 Super Committee Action

Thursday, November 17, 2011 08:00am - 11:00am

Join the Caring Across Generations campaign. We will surprise members of the Super Committee at a fundraising meeting, then walk together to Capitol Hill for a People's Hearing with members of Congress. We'll share our stories and tell Congress that the 99% of us need jobs, not cuts to our care programs.

When:
November 17, 2011 8:00am-11:00am

Where:
Meet at 8am sharp at Union Station, at the Metro stop that is closest to the outdoor eating tables (in front of the Chipotle). We'll do a surprise action at a congressional fundraiser, and then head over to the capitol together for a People's Hearing from 10:00-11:00am.

 Human Rights Webinar

Tuesday, October 25, 2011, 01:00pm - 02:00pm

The Human Right to Paid Sick Leave: How the human rights framework can advance campaigns for economic justice in the U.S.

Featuring:

Sherry Leiwant, Co-Founder & Co-President, A Better Balance

Virgilio O. Aran, Lead Organizer, Restaurant Opportunities Center of New York

When:
October 25, 2011 1:00-2:00pm

Where:
Please REGISTER for instructions on how to sign into the Webinar

Presented by the Human Rights Project at the Urban Justice Center and the US Human Rights Network

 Work/Life Panel at Culture Center

Thursday, October 20, 2011, 06:30pm - 08:00pm

ABB's Phoebe Taubman will join a panel to discuss the personal and policy dimensions of work/life balance at an event sponsored by the Bryn Mawr and Haverford College Alumni Associations, and the Stanford University Women's Network.

When:
October 20, 2011 6:30-8:00pm

Where:
Culture Center at 410 Columbus Ave, between 79th and 80th Streets

 Brooklyn Families Rock for Paid Sick Time

Sunday, October 16, 2011, 11:30am - 01:30pm

1.3 Million New Yorkers lack a single day of paid sick leave . . . we're about to change that.  
Join us for public action, arts & crafts, facepainting, balloon animals and a performance by Slavic Soul Party!

When:
October 16, 2011 from 11:30am - 1:30pm

Where:
Greenwood Ball Field, corner of Fort Hamilton Parkway and E. 5th Street in Brooklyn

Fair Pay and Work-Life Balance

Thursday, October 06, 2011, 06:00pm - 08:00pm

Progress and Pitfalls in the Effort to Achieve Fair Pay and Work-Life Balance

Join NY State Sentaor Liz Krueger, author of S. 5674, the Fair Pay Act, and a panel of experts as they explore the hot button issue of fair pay.  Learn about the "wage gap" that allows many people to be paid less than they should be for comparable work. Hear about the progress that has been made in the area, and the struggle many people still deal with as they try to achieve work-life balance.

Program Co-sponsor: NYCLA's Women's Rights Committee and New York State Bar Association's Committee on Women in the Law (CWIL)

Faculty:
Dina Bakst, Co-President, A Better Balance; Leslie Kelmachter,President, New York State Trial Lawyers Association, partner at The Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Firm and author of A High Court (Very) Open to Business, published in the New York Law    Journal July 7, 2011;  State Senator Liz Krueger, author of S.5674, the Fair Pay Act

Where:
New York County Lawyers' Association, 14 Vesey Street, New York, NY