🚨BREAKING: @SenDuckworth and I just introduced bipartisan legislation to ensure ALL education professionals have access to family and medical leave.
#COVID19 has made even clearer what we already knew: workers need access to family and medical leave to keep themselves, their families, and our communities safe.
Janitorial staff
Social workers
Paraeducators
Clerical support professionals
Maintenance workers
Foodservice employees
Bus drivers
Work every day to support our nation’s students. They ALL deserve access to family and medical leave.
Social workers
Paraeducators
Clerical support professionals
Maintenance workers
Foodservice employees
Bus drivers
Work every day to support our nation’s students. They ALL deserve access to family and medical leave.
But right now, the gap in federal law means that many of the workers we entrust to feed, transport, and teach our students are unable to access basic leave benefits without risk of losing their job.
This is wrong.
This is wrong.
It is unconscionable that many of the dedicated Americans who care for and teach our children have to choose between their health – not to mention our children’s – and their livelihoods when faced with #COVID19 or any other illness.
My ESP #FamilyLeave Act is a small but critical step toward giving school employees the support they deserve because EVERY worker supporting our students should be able to take care of their own family.
Read my full press release here: casten.house.gov/media/press-re…
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