Please Help
If you have a few minutes during the day today, would you call the Governor's office and express support for a bill? All you have to do is call, express support for the bill, give the bill number and/or name, and they'll ask your name and from what city/town you're calling. That's it. NOTE: It is super easy! I already have done it!
Call: 617-725-4005
Bill # = House 4216, Establishing a Massachusetts Work-Family Council
Details: http://web.mit.edu/workplacecenter/docs/house4216.pdf
This important bill is on the Governor's desk. It needs to be signed today (Tuesday, Jan 2nd), or it dies and the whole process has to start all over again. The center at MIT who established this bill runs out of its grant funding at the end of this year, so if the Council doesn't get created today, it likely won't get created at all.
Basically, "The mission of the Work-Family Council shall be to develop broadly shared understandings of critical work-family issues in the Commonwealth, and to promote through privately funded research, experimentation, and education responsive public policies and innovative private sector practices ".
It is important if you have children, elderly parents, and just want to help others with a work/life balance.