Save The FMLA

This message is from Working America...

If your parent, spouse or child gets sick, you should be able to take care of them. Makes sense, right?

That's why Congress passed the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) in 1993. The federal law allows employees to balance their work and family lives by taking up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave each year to care for themselves or their loved ones in the times they need help most.

But now the Bush administration's Department of Labor is asking for public comments about FMLA regulations. Worker advocates believe this could be the first step toward revising the rules in a way that will hurt workers--by making it harder to take FMLA leave.

We can't let that happen. Help us collect stories about the importance of family and medical leave, so we can pass that information on to the Department of Labor.

Click here to make a comment now.

Here's what one Working America member had to say about family and medical leave:

"As a working woman, I have worked for 35 years caring for the elderly. I have raised a son and am now finding that my parents need more time and help with getting to medical appointments. As with many other workers in the same situation, this means missing work to help. We need laws to help us keep our jobs when illness happens." --C.J., Pennsylvania

If we don't speak out, there is a chance the Bush administration could revise FMLA regulations in a way that will hurt workers by making it harder to take family and medical leave. Please make your voice heard.

Take action now.

Sincerely,

Working America, AFL-CIO
Jan. 12, 2007

Even though it's now a Democratic congress, that doesn't mean that we still don't have to fight Bushco every day.