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June 6, 2012
The Business Benefits of Earned Sick Time
When we started our Massachusetts-based businesses, South Mountain Company in 1975 and Dean's Beans Organic Coffee in 1993, we knew that the success of our business depended on the skills, health and happiness of our employees. We knew that employee loyalty translates to high-quality service and customer loyalty, and we knew we wanted our businesses to contribute to vibrant, healthy communities.
May 30, 2012
Protest Rally at Dunkin Dounts
Dunkin' Donuts controls roughly 23% of the coffee and snack-shop market, and the coffee and doughnut chain currently operates nearly 7,000 stores nationwide, and this past January said it will double the number of stores in the next twenty years.
April 26, 2012
The Case for Earned Sick Time
As business owners, women want to offer good benefits, but they are often at an unfair disadvantage without a minimum standard in place. When they do decide to offer fair wages and benefits, they run the risk of being undercut by the competition. The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce strongly and enthusiastically endorses the earned sick time legislation because it supports small businesses, benefits workers and encourages an equitable workplace for women across the Commonwealth.

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The Case for Earned Sick Time

Metrowest Daily News
Margot Dorfman, CEO of the National Women's Chamber of Commerce
The Case for Earned Sick Time

I’ve met many women who left corporate America to start their own businesses, usually because of the lack of family friendly work environments and fair pay and promotion. When women started their own firms, they wanted to change the workplace culture and the way business is done to support the competing responsibilities of work and family.

As business owners, women want to offer good benefits, but they are often at an unfair disadvantage without a minimum standard in place. When they do decide to offer fair wages and benefits, they run the risk of being undercut by the competition.

The U.S. Women’s Chamber of Commerce strongly and enthusiastically endorses the earned sick time legislation because it supports small businesses, benefits workers and encourages an equitable workplace for women across the Commonwealth.

As a businesswoman and a native of Massachusetts, I support the earned sick time legislation that is currently being debated at the State House because it’s a common sense proposal that provides numerous benefits to women, families, and businesses. Growing up in Wayland and later living on the North Shore, I have been a seasonal worker and I’ve held various other jobs in Massachusetts. At all of my full-time jobs, I was lucky enough to have paid sick time. I appreciate this benefit so much more knowing that a vast number of people aren’t as fortunate.


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