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A Better Balance Receives Outten & Golden LLP's First Annual Public Interest Award

On January 20, 2010, Outten and Golden LLP, a national preeminent employee rights law firm, recognized the mission and achievements of A Better Balance with its first ever Public Interest Award.

New Legal Resource in New York City for Pregnant Women and Family Caregivers

A Better Balance and the law firm of Outten & Golden LLP are launching a free legal clinic for people experiencing workplace problems related to their family responsibilities.

For more information, please click here.

Pushing the Women's Movement Forward -- Read Dina Bakst's commentary on Forbes.com

New Issue Brief by Phoebe Taubman

Free Riding on Families: Why the American Workplace Needs to Change and How to Do It

Sick in the City: What the Lack of Paid Leave Means for Working New Yorkers

*NEW REPORT*: Sick in the City: What the Lack of Paid Leave Means for Working New Yorkers (PDF)

A Better Balance Rallies and Testifies at City Hall

Tuesday, November 17 - A Better Balance, along with Gloria Steinem and others rallied at New York City Hall to promote legislation currently before City Council to provide for paid sick days for all New Yorkers. The NYC Council's Civil Service and Labor Committee heard hours of testimony from A Better Balance and others, who urged the Council to enact paid sick days as a moral and public health issue.

Media Coverage
•	Bill to Help Out Ill Workers is Good for Everyone's Health, Eric Ulrich (NY Daily News)
•	Council Reignites Paid Sick Leave Debate (Video, NY1)
•	Businesses rip mandate on sick days (NY Post)
•	Making business sicker (NY Post)
•	Labor Advocates, Small Business Groups Clash Over Proposed Paid Sick Leave Bill (NY Daily News)
•	Should Paid Sick Days be the Law? Some Small Business Owners Worry About Higher Costs (NY Daily News)
•	NYers Speak Out on Paid Sick Leave (WNYC)
•	City Council to Consider Paid Sick Leave Bill This Week (WNYC)
•	Debaten días de enfermedad pagados (El Diario)
•	NYC Paid Sick Leave rally draws crowds, opposition and Gloria Steinem (NY Working Moms Examiner)
•	Gloria Steinem Supports Paid Sick Days (Video)

Fanciful "Germs" Send Serious Message to Straphangers

Monday, October 26 - A Better Balance, along with NYC Paid Sick Days Coalition and the Working Families Party, organized a rally with Councilwoman Gale Brewer in Union Square to kick off the launch of a poster campaign in the subway for the pending paid sick leave legislation.

View a video of the event here:

Media Coverage
•	Look for the new subway poster campaign for paid sick leave (Examiner.com)
•	MTA Rejects Sick Day Ad (Video, WPIX)
•	Paid Sick Leave, the Brian Lehrer Show (Audio, WYNC)
•	Cough up Sick Days The Indypendent, October 30, 2009
•	A depression for Latinos El Diario, October 29, 2009

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The Work-Family Dilemma:

A Better Balance Policy Solutions for All New Yorkers

On February 1-2, 2007, A Better Balance co-hosted a summit with the Barnard Center for Research on Women, bringing together researchers and advocates, representatives from labor and business, and elected officials in New York City, to discuss work/family issues with a focus on class. From this summit emerged certain themes and a consensus around the need for a comprehensive work/family policy advocacy agenda for New York City.

To access a full copy of the proceedings, presentations and report, please login as a member. All other conference materials are available to nonmembers.