Sick Leave Quotes:

I am sick and tired of being sick and tired.

- Fannie Lou Hamer

source: "'I Question America' — Remembering Fannie Lou Hamer’s Famous Speech 50 Years Ago" by Peter Dreier, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

topic: Tired, Sick, Being Sick, Big Book, Just For Today

Workplaces need to respond to the reality of family life in the 21st century, and allowing employees to have seven sick days a year is a bare minimum, the fact that the United States is one of just a handful of countries that does not require paid family or sick leave is nothing short of shameful.

- Rosa DeLauro

topic: Life, Country, Reality, Sick Days, Sick Leave

I believe very strongly in paid sick leave.

- Carolyn Maloney

topic: Believe, Sick, I Believe, Sick Leave

Providing working Minnesotans with at least seven days of paid sick leave every year is the right thing to do to. It benefits our families and helps our businesses become more worker friendly and family friendly.

- Mark Dayton

topic: Years, Sick, Friendly, Minnesotans, Providing

There are many ways of supporting gender equality, from something as simple as paid sick leave and flexible work hours to attributing an economic value to all care-giving, and making that amount tax deductible.

- Gloria Steinem

source: Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

topic: Simple, Economic Value, Giving, Sick Leave

[Martin Luther King, Jr.] would want us to celebrate him, his birth, and his legacy by acting upon his agenda, by realizing the dream, by making the minimum wage a living wage, by having not just family and medical leave, but paid sick leave for our workers, [and] by having quality, affordable child care so that our families, the power of women can be unleashed in our economy and in our society.

- Nancy Pelosi

source: "Pelosi Remarks at 50th Anniversary of March on Washington Rally". pelosi.house.gov. August 26, 2013.

topic: Dream, Kings, Children, Living Wage, Sick Leave

I would say one thing people need to do - and his is how Roosevelt's New Deal began - let us go back to cities and states where we can, build emblematic progressive reforms, like the Fight for 15 minimum wage, paid sick leave, things that improve the conditions of people's lives and that drive them into a national message.

- Katrina vanden Heuvel

source: Source: abcnews.go.com

topic: Fighting, Cities, People, Sick Leave

The job description of mother is clearly in need of revision. As it stands, the shifts are 24 hours, for a period of approximately 1,825 consecutive days. The benefits are sorely in need of amendment: no vacations, no sick leave, no lunch hours, no breaks. Moreover, it is the only unpaid position I know of that can result in arrest if you fail to show up for work.

- Mary Blakely

topic: Mother, Jobs, Vacation, Sick Leave