Caregiver

Tell Your Legislator to Support the Child Care Is Essential Act

July 8, 2020
Uncategorized

With many schools, camps, and child care facilities closed, millions of parents are left making impossible choices between raising their kids and earning a paycheck. This is not an individual issue. This is a systemic issue. And Congress must act now to put systems in place to support working parents.

4 Policies We Need to Support Family Caregivers

November 7, 2019
Workplace Equality

When workers must forego wages to attend to family caregiving responsibilities or otherwise struggle with juggling caregiving and work, it can result in lasting economic consequences. So this National Family Caregivers Month, let’s demand we support family caregivers and treat their role with the value it deserves!

A Better Balance, Emery Celli Resolve Discrimination Claims Against MoMA PS1; Settlement Includes Sweeping Policy Changes

March 26, 2019
Workplace Equality

The New York City Museum Will Adopt Written Policies on Caregiver Discrimination, Pregnancy Accommodations & Other Workplace Rights Based on A Better Balance’s Model Policies

Testimony: 2019 NYC Pregnancy and Caregiver Hearing

March 25, 2019

Bringing a Gender Lens to the Future of Work: Pathways to Gender Equality Conference

November 6, 2018
Fair & Flexible Work

A Better Balance joined researchers and advocates from across the country in Washington, D.C., for Pathways to Gender Equality, a conference organized by the Institute for Women’s Policy Research and American University’s Program on Gender Analysis in Economics. The conference featured a wide range of economic and policy experts, including such leaders as former Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen.

Your Questions Answered: From Our New York Paid Family Leave Hotline

August 23, 2018
Paid Family Leave, State Laws

At A Better Balance, we run a free and confidential hotline answering workers’ questions about New York’s paid family leave law. We hear from a lot of New Yorkers eager to get the family leave they need and we often hear the same questions from multiple callers.

Speaking Up and Fighting Back Against Caregiver Discrimination in All Workplaces

July 10, 2018
Workplace Equality

Knowing your rights is the first step to asserting your rights. A Better Balance has a variety of online resources to help you better understand your workplace rights around caring for yourself and for loved ones.

Happy Mother’s Day

May 7, 2018
Paid Family Leave, Paid Sick Time, Pregnant Workers Fairness

For too many mothers and those that love them, balancing family and work is a constant struggle, from staying healthy during pregnancy, to breastfeeding while working, to getting a sick parent or child to the doctor. This Mother’s Day, it’s time for more than cards and flowers—let’s honor our mothers with the policy changes working families need. We won’t stop fighting until all of us can be there for our families like Ileana was.

ABB Delivers Testimony Before State Department of Labor on Abusive Scheduling Practices

October 18, 2017
Fair & Flexible Work, State Laws, Workplace Equality

When workers are forced to remain on-call even though they may not be required to work, or when they can be told their shift is cancelled hours before their reporting time, it makes scheduling their own lives impossible. Arranging childcare and transportation is a daily struggle.

Major Victory for New York City’s Working Families

October 17, 2017
City Laws, LGBTQ, Paid Sick Time

The New York City Council passed a landmark piece of legislation that will provide powerful new rights to 3.4 million workers by expanding the city’s sick time law. This marks not only an important step forward for New York City, but also an important victory for our national movement for inclusive workplace leave laws.