Many have heard about the healthy families act and the fact that is represents a benefit for the women who are having a job and they working but nobody actually know what is really this act and how it works and how can be women helped but it .

The first thing which can be said by it is the fact that it has been introduced on May 18, 2009, in the House of Representatives by Representative Rosa De Lauro and this is an act which provides paid to help the Americans to handle their own health needs and also to help their families . The fact of the act is the fact that it requires the majority of businesses to give their employees circa 56 hours our paid sick leave annually or the interval can be form 7 to 15 days .

This fact has some components which can be a helpful aid for women in order to can benefit of these covers : they are in condition of having to recover from an illness they had, something not extremely grave but which can happen and also to have to care of a family member which is ill and needs medical and family assistance , they can skip work if they have to go to different doctors for checking, for regular routine controls in order to detect if they are healthy and for prevention and the last situation is when they have been victims of violence no matter if they were harmed by domestic violence, stalking or even sexual assault and they have to recover and they need a period of time for being able to be as they used to be and to be sure that they can handle work again properly without problems .

The healthy families act it can be seen as a bill which has created an extraordinary thing for women who are working and who can be harmed by this situations which have been listed above, and it provides a field of funds for the working women and especially the ones who do not have assured payment for days when they are missing for any of the reasons presented in the bill and in this way they will not have to worry about the fact that they will be missing work and they will lose the money for the days when they can not come to work and even can get fired .

There was a need for this kind of bill because women many times have to deal with the problems of the children, parents and other relatives, they skip many times their meetings with doctors or the fact that during the years they have been victims of many violence, sexual aggression and other types of assaults without being able to do something regarding these problems and many times they had to choose whether to work or not . The bill assures a scale for the bill so for every 30 hours worked they earn an hour of paid sick and they can have a total amount of 56 hours annually .