The Healthy Families Act

Take care of your sick child... or get paid?

Help your ailing mother... or keep your job?

Stay home because you have the flu... or go to work sick?

These are the kinds of tough choices almost half of hard-working Ohioans are faced with because their employers don't allow them to earn paid sick days.

That's why we need the Healthy Families Act.

The Ohio Healthy Families Act is a proposed new state law that would make our state one of the most family-friendly in the nation. The Act would require businesses with 25 or more workers to allow full-time employees to earn 7 paid sick days per year. Part-time workers could earn a smaller, pro-rated number of paid sick days depending on the number of hours they work.

The Healthy Families Act would ensure middle-class workers—the backbone of Ohio's economy—have the opportunity to earn paid sick days. It is a law that values families and makes certain that when you work hard in Ohio, you earn the right to take care of the people who depend on you most.

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Posted by SickDaysOhio.org on March 24, 2008