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Our priority bills are moving through the Capitol! Plus, Know Your Rights Trainings Coming Soon to You
This Spring, we're pleased to announce new partnerships, opportunities, and ways you can help win family-friendly workplaces for all - please join us in launching our family caregiver campaign, come to our Los Angeles training, and help pass family friendly legislation including fully paid family leave in Berkeley. See below for how you can get involved.
 Allison Guevara and Lilliana Ocegueda presenting our prenatal provider outreach and education work in San Francisco
Webinar: CA Family Leave Rights Education for Prenatal Providers
Tuesday, March 27, 2018 from 10:00 - 11:30 am (PT)
Paid Family Leave promotes health and economic security, but many new parents don't know how to access it. Prenatal providers are uniquely positioned to help their patients navigate their rights and ensure adequate leave time to heal and bond. This webinar will help increase awareness and understanding of California's State Disability Insurance and Paid Family Leave programs and other family leave rights, and share strategies for how to inform your prenatal community.
Presenters:
Allison Guevara, CA Work & Family Coalition
Kacie Finnicum, CA Employment Development Department's Disability Insurance Branch
Julia Parish, Legal Aid at Work
Lilliana Ocegueda, SF Department of Public Health
To register for this webinar, click HERE.
Supporting Working Family Caregivers: Research Project Launch
We're partnering with Human Impact Partners on a research project focused on California family caregivers and Paid Family Leave (PFL). Since 2004, less than one-eighth of Paid Family Leave claims have been to care for a seriously ill family member. Our aim is to learn how caregivers use Paid Family Leave, how to make PFL more accessible, and what other resources or supports caregivers need. The research project will kick off a 3-year campaign in which we will organize our members, build new partnerships, and work with legislators on education, outreach, and policy change. The survey will be live in April and we need your help to distribute it to caregivers in your network. If you can share the survey or want to get involved in the campaign, please sign up HERE.
 Katie Wutchiett (LAAW) and Melisa Acoba (CA WFC) at the NNEDV Conference on March 8
CA Coalition Leads Workshop on Paid Sick and Safe Days in Las Vegas
Family Values @Work, the California Work & Family Coalition, and Legal Aid at Work co-organized and led a session on organizing campaigns for Paid Sick and Safe Days at the National Network to End Domestic Violence conference on Economic Justice in Las Vegas on March 8. Coalition staff, Melisa Acoba, emphasized the importance of working in coalition to pass laws that truly support the needs of DV survivors and their families. "At the conference, we learned that financial abuse is a component in 99% of domestic violence cases. This is why policies that protect a survivor's job and wages are so important," she said. Coalition members will be working to pass AB 2841 (Gonzalez Fletcher) - an expansion of our current Paid Sick and Safe Days law - in California this year. See our policy updates below for how you can help.
AARP California Hosts Tele Town Halls Featuring the Coalition
On March 13 and 21, Coalition members and staff got to participate in an AARP tele town hall on Caregivers and Paid Family Leave. This was a great way to get important information on our leave laws to thousands of Californians. Looking forward to more collaboration!
CA Family Leave Laws Training - May 2nd in LA - Save the Date!
We invite community advocates to join us in LA on May 2nd to help make CA Paid Family Leave and other protections accessible and equitable for all. Advocates, providers, employers and community leaders will learn about key rights and prepare to educate their own clients / patients / members/ employees / communities. RSVP here!
Coalition Priority Legislation
Support AB 2841 (Gonzalez Fletcher) CA Paid Sick Days Expansion
AB 2841 (Gonzalez Fletcher) would expand the number of paid sick days a California worker can accrue from 3 (in current law) to a minimum of 5 days a year. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the 2018 flu season has been especially severe and people who contracted the flue need at least one week to recover. Please send letters of support to Assemblymember Gonzalez Fletcher and join us at the Hearing in Assembly Labor on April 4, 10:00 am in room 112 of the State Capitol.
Letters of Support Needed: Berkeley City Council Considers 100% Paid Family Leave
Berkeley City Council still has not voted on the proposed ordinance that would provide Berkeley workers with 100% paid family leave for 6 weeks to bond with a new child or care for seriously ill family member, with the supplemental pay to be provided by employers (small businesses are exempt). If you are a Berkeley resident, or have members who live in Berkeley, please email or call city councilmembers. Find a sample letter of support here.
SB 937 (Wiener) – Workplace Lactation Accommodation – requires employers to support breastfeeding employees by having a written lactation policy and providing employees with a safe and comfortable lactation space that meets minimum requirements. SB 937 also requires newly constructed or renovated buildings of a certain size to include lactation spaces, and requires that the State develop a model policy. These supports will ensure working parents never have to choose between continuing to breastfeed and returning to work. Please send in your letters of support to the Senate Chair of Labor, Senator Bradford and join us at the Senate Labor Hearing on April 11th 9:30 am in room 2040 in the State Capitol.
Coalition Work is the Key to Family-Friendly Policies that Work for Everyone. Please donate and become a member today!
California Work & Family Coalition
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Posted on behalf of Phylene Wiggins, Senior Director of Community Investments
Santa Barbara Foundation
