Fighting for Justice and Fairness for Working Families
Dear Friends,
When Katie, a cashier in Pennsylvania, suffered a miscarriage and experienced heavy bleeding, she tried to use doctors’ notes and hospitalization records to excuse her missed shifts, but her manager wouldn’t accept them. Instead, Katie was disciplined and forced to return to work, still in pain, and fearful of losing her job.
Stories like Katie’s are all too common, but A Better Balance is fighting for people like her every day.
During these difficult times, our efforts to use the power of the law to protect and defend the rights of workers, women, and LGBTQ families is essential.
With a federal government that has pulled back from its critical role enforcing our nation’s civil rights laws, we have doubled down to provide free legal support to vulnerable workers through direct representation and litigation to bring about wider change.
And in the absence of federal progress, we are working even harder to secure new protections for workers at the state and local levels.
Despite these challenges, with your support, A Better Balance has led the way and helped achieve major victories in 2017:
With this year’s victory in Rhode Island, we have helped to pass 40 paid sick time laws, including eight statewide laws, around the country.
Nashville, Tennessee implemented a path-breaking paid family leave policy—a model for municipalities across the nation.
And four new states (Vermont, Massachusetts, Nevada, and Washington) passed laws to ensure that pregnant workers are afforded accommodations to stay healthy and on the job.
We are implementing the strongest paid family leave law in the nation to ensure that millions of New Yorkers are able to access paid family leave when this groundbreaking law goes into effect.
In New York City, we helped lead the fight for equal pay and strong laws protecting retail and fast food workers from abusive scheduling practices. And most recently, we championed the expansion of the city’s paid sick time law to cover victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, or trafficking.
We assisted more than 450 workers and their families through our free legal helpline in 2017 and launched a national legal effort to combat Walmart’s punitive “absence control” policy featured in The New York Times. We also filed a nationwide class action discrimination lawsuit on behalf of thousands of pregnant Walmart workers.
None of these victories would be possible without your support.
With your support, we will not only preserve the progress we’ve made, but can move forward. We know the opposition will be trying every tactic in the book in 2018—support us now as we stand ready to fight back!
Be a Seed for Change 
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