Tools and Resources for Paid Sick Time Campaigns

Model Laws

• Model Paid Sick and Safe Time Law for State and Local Advocates (2011)

A Better Balance worked with the National Partnership for Women and Families to create model legislation for state and local advocates considering launching a paid sick time campaign.  Please note, the model is a useful tool for getting started, but it is important to customize the model for your particular state or locality.  We are available to help you do that.  If you have questions regarding the model legislation, or would like technical assistance on customizing the model to your state or locality, please contact Sherry Leiwant at A Better Balance (212-430-5982 or  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ) or Vicki Shabo at the National Partnership (202-986-2600 or  This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. ).

Fact Sheets

General

• General Paid Sick Time Fact Sheet

Back-to-School

• Paid Sick Time and the Health of Your Children: What You Need to Know

Public Health

• Paid Sick Days Improve Our Public Health (NPWF)
  

Economic Security

• Paid Sick Days Protect the Economic Security of Working Families (NPWF)
  

LGBT and HIV/AIDS Communities

• Paid Sick Time and the LGBT Community (New York City)
• Paid Sick Time and the LGBT Community (Philadelphia, April 2011)
• Paid Sick Time and the HIV/AIDS Community (New York City)
• LGBT Elders Need Paid Sick Time (New York City)

Is your campaign interested in developing paid sick time fact sheets for the LGBT and HIV/AIDS communities? A Better Balance is available to help! Please get in touch with us at 212-430-5982 for more information.

The Business Case for Paid Sick Time

• Paid Sick Leave Does Not Harm Employment, Drum Major Institute for Public Policy (September 2010)
• Job Growth Strong with Paid Sick Days, IWPR (October 2008)
• San Francisco Employment Growth Remains Stronger with Paid Sick Days Law Than Surrounding Counties, IWPR (September 2011)
• Employee Benefits in the United States, U.S. Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics (July 2010)
• Paid Sick Days Lead to Cost Savings for All (January 2012, NPWF)
• Paid Sick Days: Good for Businesses, Good for Workers (August 2011, NPWF)

Organizing Resources

Ideas for Actions

• Back-to-School Ideas for Public Education and Organizing Actions on Paid Sick Time

Flyer Examples

• Flyer for New York City Healthy Families Paid Sick Time Rally
• Flyer for Brooklyn Parents "Speak Out"
• First Flyer for Campaign Relaunch Rally
• Second Flyer for Campaign Relaunch Rally
• Third Flyer for Campaign Relaunch Rally

Letters

• Women's Sign-On Letter to New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn
• Letter to Faith Leaders on Paid Sick Time

Blueprint for a Regional Work-Family Strategy

• A Work-Family Agenda for New England and the Nation (2011)

Polling Data

• Still Sick in the City: What the Lack of Paid Leave Means for Working New Yorkers, Nancy Rankin, CSS-NY (January 2012)
• Connecticut Poll Shows Paid Sick Days Standards Are a Bipartisan Voting Issue, Hart Research Associates Survey for the National Partnership for Women and Families (August 2011)
• Polling Data from Sick in the City: New Yorkers at Every Income Level Support Paid Sick Days, A Better Balance and CSS (October 2009)
• More than Three Quarters of Workers Polled View Paid Sick Time as a Basic Employment Right That Should be Guaranteed by Government, National Opinion Research Center Survey for the Public Welfare Foundation (August 2008)

Other Resources

• A Better Balance's Paid Sick Time Documents and Resources Library
• Interview with Sherry Leiwant in Sloan Work and Family Network News
• Family Values @ Work
• National Partnership for Women and Families