Public Forum on Earned Sick Time

 
Did you know...
That in Pennsylvania, 46 percent of all workers have no access to earned sick time?
Instead, workers must work sick or risk losing their pay and their jobs.
 
Did you know...
That of the 18 million norovirus (stomach flu) infections nationally, ½ come from ill food service workers?
The Coalition for Healthy Families and Workplaces
invites you to our 
Public Forum on Earned Sick Time
March 10, 2010-10 AM to 12 PM
Central Branch of the Free Library,
4th Floor Skyline Room
1901 Vine Street, Philadelphia PA
 
To sign up, please visit http://earnedsicktime1.eventbrite.com
 
 
Join us  to learn more about earned sick time from:
 
-Legislators
-Affected workers
-Supportive employers
-Physicians
 
The event will also include polling data and information on earned sick time from The National Partnership for Women and Families!
 
 
To sign up for  this event, please visit ?http://earnedsicktime1.eventbrite.com! ?You can also email your RSVP to policy@pathwayspa.org or ?call Kate Scully at 610-543-5022 x255.
If you have been affected by the need for sick time or are a business owner who offers sick time and would like to speak at this event, please call or email us as well!
 
 
The Coalition for Healthy Families and Workplaces is a group of organizations supporting the need for earned sick time in Philadelphia and Pennsylvania.  Primary organizers of this event include PathWays PA and WOMEN'S WAY.  Coalition members include:
Childspace CDI ? CLASP ? Coalition of Labor Union Women ?Institute for Women's Policy Research ? Maternity Care Coalition? MomsRising ? National Partnership for Women & Families ?National Organization for Women (Phila. Chapter) ? PathWays PA ? Pennsylvania ACORN?   People's Emergency Center ?Philadelphia Physicians for Social Responsibility ? SEIU ? ?The Campaign for Working Families ? Women's LawProject ?WOMEN'S WAY ? Women Vote PA
 
 
 
PathWays PA began in 1978 as the Women's Association for Women's Alternatives, one of Pennsylvania's first residential programs to keep low-income, vulnerable women together with their children.    It has grown to become one of the Greater Philadelphia region's foremost providers of residential and community-based services for women and their children.    Each year PathWays PA serves more than 6,000 women, children and families who reside in Philadelphia, Delaware, and Chester counties through a full complement of social services, job training and employment assistance, outreach and residential programs.