Paid Family Leave

Governor Brown: Sign California bill to help military families!

September 14, 2018
Paid Family Leave

If signed into law, SB 1123 will expand California’s existing paid leave law to provide paid benefits to workers so that they can take time off to address needs arising out of their loved one’s military service.

Women’s Equality Day, Not so Fast

August 26, 2018
Workplace Equality

The history of voting rights in this country is marked by inequality—gender as well as racial inequality. We are still fighting the legacy of this discrimination in the voting booth and beyond.

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.

Breastfeeding Moms Benefit from Paid Leave

August 17, 2018
Breastfeeding While Working, Paid Family Leave

In August each year, we celebrate National Breastfeeding Month. It’s an opportunity to recognize the importance of breastfeeding and consider the challenges still before us in ensuring all mothers can breastfeed if they choose. Paid leave is an essential tool in establishing and sustaining breastfeeding.

Reject Rubio’s Radical Raid on Social Security and Pass Real Paid Leave

August 2, 2018
Paid Family Leave

Senator Marco Rubio filed a new bill today that would provide parental leave benefits by cutting Social Security. ABB rejects the false choice between the time to care for ourselves and our families and a secure retirement.

A Better Balance Launches Policy Brief Series on Paid Leave and the Future Of Work

July 26, 2018
Paid Family Leave, State Laws

Today, we launched Constructing 21st Century Rights For A Changing Workforce, a new series of policy briefs analyzing key issues in covering non-standard and precarious workers under paid leave laws. The first brief focuses on how paid family and medical leave laws can cover self-employed workers like freelancers and independent contractors.

Beware: Congress’s “WorkFlex” Bill is an Attack on Workers, Families, and Local Democracy

July 23, 2018
Defending Local Democracy, Fair & Flexible Work, LGBTQ, National Laws, Paid Family Leave, Paid Sick Time

Congress's “Workflex in the 21st Century” bill will undermine robust state and local paid sick leave and fair scheduling laws as well as efforts nationwide to ensure that workers can take time off to care for their loved ones.

Massachusetts passes Groundbreaking Paid Family and Medical Leave Law

June 28, 2018
Paid Family Leave, State Laws

Massachusetts’s law will begin providing benefits in 2021 and will cover nearly all private sector employees. The law provides 12 weeks of job-protected paid family leave and is the first state in the nation to allow workers to take job-protected paid time off for their own serious health needs.

FMLA 25: States are Expanding the meaning of Family

June 12, 2018
LGBTQ, Paid Family Leave

The way our laws define family sends a signal about who our country sees and values. But these choices are more than symbols—they have powerful practical consequences for real people’s ability to care for those they love.

This Father’s Day, Join Us in Celebrating & Supporting Male Caregivers

June 8, 2018
Paid Family Leave

Join us as we continue pushing for policies that ensure no father, husband, partner, brother, or dear friend, has to choose between caring for a loved one and earning a paycheck.