Don't Sneeze in My Food -- Call Your Commissioners Today

Please call your Miami-Dade County Commissioners & Ask them to Vote for Earned Paid Sick Time

On Tuesday, November 20 at 2:00 pm at a Miami-Dade County Commission Hearing, Commissioner Barbara Jordan will introduce the Miami-Dade Earned Sick Time Ordinance. Please call or email (contact information below) your commissioner today or tomorrow morning to express your support for the Ordinance. Employees should not have to choose between their job and their health or the health of their loved ones. The ordinance will not only improve the conditions of workers in our community, but will also safeguard their families and the public health.

**The majority of employees without paid sick days work closely with the public elevating the potential for the spread of contagion, increasing not only the public health risks but also the cost of local health care

**Businesses suffer as employees who go to work sick stay ill longer and spread the illness to their co-workers affecting productivity

**Sick children are often either left home alone when a parent cannot stay home to care for them or sent to school ill, thus spreading the illness to other children and affecting our educational system

**Women are also disproportionately affected by the lack of an earned sick time ordinance as they are frequently the caretakers in families

We all benefit from an Earned Sick Time Ordinance. And it's the right thing to do.

Please call or email now.

District 1- Commissioner Barbara Jordan
305-375-5694 or 305-474-3011 E-mail: bjordan@miamidade.gov

District 2 - Commissioner Jean Monestime
305-375-4833 or 305-694-2779 E-mail: district2@miamidade.gov

District 3 - Commissioner Audrey Edmonson
305-375-5393 or 305-636-2331 E-mail: district3@miamidade.gov

District 4 - Commissioner Sally Heyman
305-375-5128 or 305-787-5999 E-mail: district4@miamidade.gov

District 5 - Commissioner Bruno Barreiro
305-375-5924 or 305-673-7743 E-mail: district5@miamidade.gov

District 6 - Commissioner Rebeca Sosa
305-375-5696 or 305-267-6377 E-mail: district6@miamidade.gov

District 7 - Commissioner Xavier Suarez
305-375-5680 or 305-669-4003 E-mail: district7@miamidade.gov

District 8 - Commissioner Lynda Bell
305-375-5218 or 305-378-6677 E-mail: District8@miamidade.gov

District 9 - Commissioner Dennis Moss
305-375-4835 or 305-245-4420 E-mail: DennisMoss@miamidade.gov

District 10 - Commissioner Javier Souto
305-375-4835 or 305-222-2116 E-mail: district10@miamidade.gov

District 11 - Commissioner to be Juan Zapata on 11/20/2012
305-375-3511 or 305-552-1155 E-mail: district11@miamidade.gov

District 12 - Commissioner Jose "Pepe" Diaz
305-375-4343 or 305-599-1200 E-mail: district12@miamidade.gov

District 13 - Commissioner Esteban Bovo
305-375-4831 or 305-820-8424 E-mail: district13@miamidade.gov