Paid Time Off MattersA (slow) progress report

Reading 'The Moment of Lift', by Melinda Gates.

I just finished reading 'The Moment of Lift, How Empowering Women Changes the World', by Melinda Gates. I'll point out here the parts that I found especially interesting as they relate to paid leave. I know there are many other aspects of the book that are worth taking in and commenting about but I want to focus on what she writes about paid leaves, who are the people (mostly women organizing to obtain changes) and how it relates to my own experience as a temp with a Microsoft's contractor trying to obtain paid leave, as described in 'The Other Microsoft" and this blog.

This blog is part of a concerted activity

This blog is part of a concerted activity about our joint concern, as employees of Lionbridge Technologies, for the improvement of our common working conditions.

It is part of a collective effort of several co-workers to engage our employer to provide us with paid leaves (paid vacation, paid sick leave, paid family leave, paid legal holidays) and increased pay to all of us after years of full time and considered excellent work without any raise in our compensation.