Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act Press Conference

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