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Latest Promises

Impose a hiring freeze on federal employees

Walk with picketers when collective bargaining rights are threatened

Hold hospitals and health plans accountable for disparities in care

Improve recruitment of public health workers

Promote lifelong retraining

Commission a study on students with disabilities and their transition to jobs or higher education

Set goals and timetables for implementing Section 503 of the Rehabilitation Act

Work to ban the permanent replacement of striking workers

Strengthen the Age Discrimination in Employment Act

Provide a $1.5 billion fund to help states launch programs for paid family and medical leave

Require employers to provide seven paid sick days per year

Reduce the threshhold for the Family and Medical Leave Act

Create a best practices list for private businesses in accommodating workers with disabilities

Launch educational initiative for employers on tax benefits of hiring employees with disabilities

Sign the Employee Free Choice Act, making it easier for workers to unionize

Reinstate order to hire 100,000 more federal employees with disabilities within five years.

Reimburse employer health plans for a portion of catastrophic costs

Expand funding to train primary care providers and public health practitioners