Take Action Now

CEW monitors state and federal legislation of interest to women seeking to improve their careers, education and family life.  We also take part in state and national dialogues that spur the creation of such laws.

To take action on any or all of these current topics:

Support the Healthy Families Act for national paid sick leave.   Write or call your federal Senators and Representative and ask that they support the Healthy Families Act.  This law would guarantee at least seven paid sick days per year for workers of companies with 15 or more employees. Currently, 59 million workers in the U.S. have no paid sick leave at all and roughly 86 million workers do not have paid sick leave that can be used to care for sick children.

Learn more and then show your support for the Health Families Act. This link is to the NCWO’s page with more info about the act and how to show support.

Sign onto the Work and Family Bill of Rights.  More and more these days, jobs in the U.S. seem to be divided between employees with high pay and benefits, but long hours and little time for family or leisure, and employees with low wages, few benefits, and insufficient flexibility and financial resources to care for their families.  We can and should do better!
Click here to sign onto the Work & Family Bill of Rights, which is TakeCareNet’s Work and Family Bill of Rights sign-up page.

Tell the Michigan legislature that pay equity and comparable worth are important matters of fairness for women and the families they support.  Legislation in Michigan would amend the state’s Elliot-Larsen Civil Rights Act to provide equal compensation for work of comparable value in terms of the composite skill, responsibility, effort, education or training and working conditions regardless of religion, race, color, national origin, age, sex, height, weight, or marital status.
Urge your state representatives to support House Bills 4625, 4626 and 4627 and their equivalent bills in the state Senate.  To learn more, click here, to go to the House Fiscal Agency webpage showing the bills, its progress through the legislature and the HFA’s legislative analysis of it.

How to Get Your Message Heard:

Determine who represents you at the state and/or federal level, depending on which level of government is relevant to your concern. 

Find your State Senator.
Find your State Representative

Find your U.S. Senator
Find your U.S. Representative

• Prepare your message.  Briefly outline the topic of your concern, why the matter is personally important to you, and the action you want taken.

• Deliver your message by phone, letter, email, or in person!

Adapt the message you just crafted into a letter to the editor for your local newspaper.
Find newspaper addresses in your state which is the Public Citizen locator tool for newspaper contact information, by state.