How Paid Sick Leave Became a Major Issue for the Left

Such findings led the author of the Bloomberg story to conclude that “mandating paid sick leave has limited effect on businesses, workers and ...

Why paid sick leave became a big issue in rail labor talks

Unions say rail carriers cut too much in the name of efficiency, leaving them with too few workers to cover for absent colleagues.

Why The Fight for Paid Sick Leave is a Civil Rights Issue | ACLU

A protester in a car with a sign reading "Worker Health is Public Health". As our nation grapples with its grievous legacy of racism, it is ...

Why Paid Leave Is the Path to Progress and Prosperity

Nearly one in four private sector workers don't have a single paid sick day. Those left out are disproportionately low-wage and part-time ...

Making Paid Sick Time a Reality - The American Prospect

Organizing for paid leave, which is on the verge of passing in Minnesota, is part of a larger challenge to reverse an abusive workplace ...

Paid Sick Days and Paid Family and Medical Leave Are Not Job ...

Contrary to claims by opponents, paid sick days and paid family and medical leave do not lead to a rise in unemployment but rather benefit workers, businesses, ...

3 GOP States Join Paid Sick Leave Movement, Passing Ballot ...

Paid sick leave is gaining momentum across the country, with three more states, all traditionally Republican, passing ballot measures last ...

Paid Sick Days Improve Public Health

can lead to prolonged illnesses and turn minor health problems into major, more costly ones.16 Workers who do not have paid sick days are ...

Essential and Vulnerable: Service-Sector Workers and Paid Sick ...

We find that 55% of workers at large service-sector firms have no paid sick leave, and women are significantly less likely to have paid sick leave than their ...

Pandemic Prompts More States to Mandate Paid Sick Leave

That still left more than 33 million workers without paid sick leave, with lower-wage workers less likely to have it. According to the bureau, ...

The need for paid sick days: The lack of a federal policy further ...

Employees without paid sick time are likely to go to work sick, where they will have reduced productivity, at a significant cost both to their ...

The Case for Offering Paid Leave: Benefits to the Employer ...

The U.S. also does not guarantee paid sick leave, and is only 1 of 11 countries that do not. Most countries (91%) offer at least 2 weeks, and 76% of countries ...

The Pandemic Changed Paid Sick Leave, But Not For Everyone | TIME

... paid sick leave policies, and the most vulnerable workers are being left out ... The question now is whether sick leave will become more ...

Estimating the Distributional Impacts of Alternative Policies to ...

This Issue Brief explores the distributional impact of three alternative policy models for providing paid sick days taken from actual ...

New Federal Paid Sick Leave Rights (2024): The Ultimate Guide for ...

The law was written to address many of the gaps in existing state and federal laws that provided workers with the right to take leave when sick, ...

A National Paid Leave Program Would Help Workers, Families

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, federal policymakers created a temporary paid family and medical leave program in the Families First ...

The Urgent Case for Permanent Paid Leave

In 2019, more than 32 million people in the country did not have access to a single paid sick day,2 and 4 out of 5 workers did not have access ...

Paid Family & Medical Leave - A Better Balance

Our Issues. Paid Family & Medical Leave. When a new child arrives or serious illness strikes, you often need time off from work. But for many Americans, it's ...

Is it unprofessional to use all sick days? : r/careerguidance - Reddit

55 votes, 136 comments. My employer provides 12 sick days per year (separate from paid vacation days and personal days).

Some states have blocked paid sick-leave laws. That could be ...

Prior to the pandemic, almost two dozen states had passed laws prohibiting local governments from mandating paid sick-leave policies — an ...