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California | Health, Housing, and Public ServicesHealthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act Press Conference
New legislation in Sacramento will give sick days to California workers. The public is encouraged to contact their representatives in order to make certain the bill becomes reality.
The sponsors of the bill held a telephone press conference on Wednesday in order to inform the media of the need and scope of the Act. Two health-care policymakers and a restaurant worker spoke on the need to keep sick employees away from the public and the expensive burden to society of stingy bosses.
The report and a summary of the Act can be found at the Human Impact Partners website. An audio-file of the press conference is attached. Due to technical difficulties the introduction was cut off, but the bulk of the session, with questions and answers, is intact. Participants included: - Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH, Director, Occupational & Environmental Health, San Francisco Department of Public Health - Jody Heymann, MD, Founding Director, Institute for Health and Social Policy, McGill University and Project on Global Working Families, Harvard University - Alicia Hershey, Restaurant Worker from San Francisco, Member, Young Workers United
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