Urge the Department of Labor not to make any harmful changes to the Family and Medical Leave Act! Please click the button to send an email in support of FMLA to the DOL's Richard M. Brennan. You can use the wording below, but if you have a personal story about why the FMLA has been important for you or your family, please add that to the message. Thank you for doing your part to ensure that the Administration knows the public supports the FMLA and will fight any attempts to scale it back.

Dear [ Decision Maker ] ,

I am writing to express my full support for the Family and Medical Leave Act. The FMLA is a groundbreaking law that has allowed millions of Americans to take critical time off to care for their own or a family member's illness, or to care for a new baby, without putting their jobs on the line.

The Department of Labor's Request for Information, soliciting comments on regulations implementing the FMLA, raises concern that the Department of Labor may be considering changes to the regulations that would roll back the FMLA's protections or scale back the FMLA's coverage for workers' health and family needs. I strongly oppose changes that would limit the scope of the FMLA, and I support regulations that will ensure workers can take full advantage of their FMLA protections.

The FMLA is a real success story: it ensures that America has productive and successful workers and healthy and secure families. We should be putting our energy into expanding it to cover more workers, and into making paid family and medical leave and paid sick days available to all. We look to the Department of Labor to protect the rights of workers and to provide better policies for our nation's families.

The FMLA is a monumental step towards our goal of being a nation that values families. But it is only a first step. Millions of Americans do not have access to the Act's protections, and millions more cannot afford to take advantage of them. Instead of questioning the protections we currently have under the FMLA, we should be expanding the FMLA to make it more affordable and accessible to all working families. For example, I support legislation that would provide those taking leave with income during their leave, such as paid family and medical leave legislation, or the Healthy Families Act, which would provide a minimum number of paid sick days per year for each worker to recover from her or his own illness or care for a sick family member.

Thank you for the opportunity to comment on the importance of the Family and Medical Leave Act for millions of working Americans and their families.

Sincerely,

Campaign Launched:
January 17, 2007