Here’s who qualifies for coronavirus paid sick leave under new federal law
4 years, 9 months ago

Here’s who qualifies for coronavirus paid sick leave under new federal law

LA Times  

The federal government’s emergency coronavirus relief law includes paid sick leave benefits for American employees at small to midsize firms who have to take time off because of the spreading virus. “There’s no reason why it should be so onerous for a small business to take this up, because they’re going to get that back in tax credits.” She said that federal data show 27% of U.S. private sector workers are employed at firms with 50 or fewer workers, and that 36% of those employees don’t have access to paid sick leave. The result is that 12.8 million workers at small businesses are in jeopardy of not getting paid sick leave even with the new law, Gould said. Another labor lawyer, Shannon Liss-Riordan, said that “in the meantime, I believe the employer would be responsible for paying sick leave under the act.” Three Democratic members of Congress — Sen. Patty Murray of Washington, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York and Rep. Rosa De Lauro of Connecticut — have introduced a bill, called the PAID Leave Act, that would provide “all employees and independent contractors” with 14 emergency paid sick days, to be “reimbursed in full by the federal government.” DeLauro said in a statement that she was “disappointed” the law Trump signed “left out tens of millions of workers from access to meaningful paid sick days or longer-term paid leave, including our frontline healthcare workers and first responders.” The new bill is needed “so no one falls through the cracks,” she said.

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Seven million workers to get sick pay from the first day under 'once-in-a-generation' overhaul of workers' rights
3 months ago

Seven million workers to get sick pay from the first day under 'once-in-a-generation' overhaul of workers' rights

Daily Mail  

Workers will be given rights to claim sick pay from their first day on the job under new laws. Probation periods – which can currently last as long as two years – are also expected to be shortened to six months and staff will get protection against unfair dismissal from their first day at work. Labour is set to give …

Paid Sick Leave Laws May Be Coming To More Red States
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Paid Sick Leave Laws May Be Coming To More Red States

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING A growing number of liberal states have passed paid sick leave laws in recent years, assuring workers get paid time off to care for themselves or their loved ones when they’re ill. Now some conservative states might be getting in on the act, too. “What we’ve realized in talking to thousands of Nebraskans is that this is …

Low-Wage Workers Are The Least Likely To Enjoy Paid Holidays
6 months ago

Low-Wage Workers Are The Least Likely To Enjoy Paid Holidays

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Millions of Americans will enjoy the day off on Thursday while still collecting a paycheck for the Fourth of July. Overall, 79% of U.S. workers received paid holidays last year, while 77% were eligible for paid vacation. “Ninety-six percent of workers in white-collar business and finance jobs received paid holidays last year, while only 57% of workers …

Connecticut House votes to expand state’s paid sick leave requirement for all employers by 2027
8 months, 2 weeks ago

Connecticut House votes to expand state’s paid sick leave requirement for all employers by 2027

Associated Press  

HARTFORD, Conn. — Connecticut’s first-in-the-nation paid sick leave law from 2011 moved closer Wednesday to being updated, requiring all employers, down to those with a single worker, to provide their employees with time off by 2027. “We’ve experienced quite a culture change since 2011, and that’s especially true even more since we experienced the pandemic,” said Democratic House Majority Leader …

Ill-gotten gains: Why does American society coerce us to work while sick?
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Ill-gotten gains: Why does American society coerce us to work while sick?

Salon  

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may soon remove its five-day isolation guidance for people who are infected with COVID-19, according to a recent report in The Washington Post. But as one epidemiologist told NPR: "It's like saying, well, people aren't really wearing a seat belt, so I guess we can say seat belts don't matter.” A reversal in …

California workers will get five sick days instead of three under law signed by Gov. Newsom
1 year, 3 months ago

California workers will get five sick days instead of three under law signed by Gov. Newsom

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Workers in California will soon receive a minimum of five days of paid sick leave annually, instead of three, under a new law Gov. “Five paid sick days is a step in the right direction and workers will be less likely forced to risk their livelihoods to do the right thing and stay home when they’re sick …

California workers will see more paid sick time off under new law
1 year, 3 months ago

California workers will see more paid sick time off under new law

LA Times  

The health concerns faced by essential workers during the COVID-19 pandemic helped increase support for expanding the number of paid sick days for employees in California. California workers will be entitled to five paid sick days, up from the current three, under a new law signed by Gov. The bill signed into law on Wednesday was lauded by the California …

California moves one step closer to five paid sick days, with unions banking on COVID lessons
1 year, 3 months ago

California moves one step closer to five paid sick days, with unions banking on COVID lessons

LA Times  

California employers will be required to provide workers with five days of paid sick leave under legislation passed by the state Legislature on Wednesday, up from the current three-day requirement. “While one more paid benefit may not seem significant in isolation, this mandate must be viewed in the context of all of California’s other leaves and paid benefits, especially the …

Most gig workers paid sick leave under new Seattle law
1 year, 9 months ago

Most gig workers paid sick leave under new Seattle law

Associated Press  

SEATTLE — Most gig workers in Seattle will be permanently entitled to paid sick leave and safe time under a first-in-the-nation law signed by Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell on Wednesday. Seattle previously allowed food delivery workers to accrue paid sick and safe time, but that policy was due to expire May 1, six months after the end of the emergency …

Minnesota moves toward paid sick leave mandate for everyone
1 year, 10 months ago

Minnesota moves toward paid sick leave mandate for everyone

Associated Press  

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Nearly all Minnesota workers would be entitled to paid sick leave under a plan moving through the Legislature that’s aimed at the roughly one-third whose employers don’t already give them time off when they’re ill. Employees would be guaranteed one hour of paid “earned sick and safe time” for every 30 hours worked, up to 48 …

With less access to paid leave, rural workers face hard choices about health, family
1 year, 11 months ago

With less access to paid leave, rural workers face hard choices about health, family

NPR  

With less access to paid leave, rural workers face hard choices about health, family Enlarge this image toggle caption Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez/KHN Jazmin Orozco Rodriguez/KHN ELKO, Nev. — When Ruby B. Sutton found out she was pregnant in late 2021, it was hard to envision how her full-time job would fit with having a newborn at home. Sponsor Message Experts …

Sharp increase in small business absenteeism, sick leave in 2022
2 years ago

Sharp increase in small business absenteeism, sick leave in 2022

NL Times  

The number of people absent from work in small and midsized enterprises rose sharply in 2022. Interpolis has said it is worrying that the number of people absent for a long time rose in 2022 compared to 2021 and the years before the coronavirus pandemic. When an organization struggles with not enough personnel, it creates added work pressure for its …

California to end mandatory pay for workers who caught COVID on the job
2 years ago

California to end mandatory pay for workers who caught COVID on the job

LA Times  

A worker prepares desserts at Universal City Walk. California workplace regulators have voted to end a rule requiring companies to pay employees who can’t work because they caught the coronavirus on the job. For the last two years, California workplace regulators have tried to slow the spread of the coronavirus by requiring infected workers to stay home while also guaranteeing …

There’s a Looming Workplace Crisis. Employers Don’t Care.
2 years, 5 months ago

There’s a Looming Workplace Crisis. Employers Don’t Care.

Slate  

Few people are as knee-deep in our work-related anxieties and sticky office politics as Alison Green, who has been fielding workplace questions for a decade now on her website Ask a Manager. Nearly two and a half years into a pandemic that has transformed many people’s work lives, companies still haven’t figured out how to manage COVID-related sick leave. Even …

Sick leave, work stress cost the economy over €18 billion last year
2 years, 7 months ago

Sick leave, work stress cost the economy over €18 billion last year

NL Times  

Sick leave dented the Dutch economy by more than 18 billion euros last year, according to insurance firm Nationale-Nederlanden. Coronavirus was among several causes of the increase, which also included longer periods of absenteeism, the insurer detailed in a report on developments in the field of absenteeism and work incapacity. The study found that the absenteeism rate also rose along …

California workers have new COVID-19 sick pay benefits. Here’s how it works
2 years, 11 months ago

California workers have new COVID-19 sick pay benefits. Here’s how it works

LA Times  

Fanny Ortiz, a union organizer, raises her fist in a “drive-thru strike line” at a McDonald’s in Monterey Park on April 9, 2020. “We wouldn’t be here without them and I’m honored to be able to sign these pieces of legislation today.” The sick leave policy allows all workers at businesses of 26 or more employees to take paid time …

California votes to require paid sick leave for virus cases
2 years, 11 months ago

California votes to require paid sick leave for virus cases

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — When Crystal Orozco got sick with the coronavirus last month, she missed nearly two weeks’ worth of her salary as a shift leader at a fast food restaurant and had to ask family members for a loan to help pay her rent. The tax cuts and other moves, including letting business owners deduct federal coronavirus grants from …

New COVID-19 sick pay for California workers approved by lawmakers
2 years, 11 months ago

New COVID-19 sick pay for California workers approved by lawmakers

LA Times  

California lawmakers passed legislation on Monday to provide most workers with up to two weeks of COVID-19 supplemental paid sick leave, a move policymakers hope will slow the spread of the coronavirus across the state. “As the Omicron surge intensified, workers screamed from the rooftops about the desperate need to reinstate COVID paid sick leave,” California Labor Federation Executive Secretary-Treasurer …

‘Just wear a mask and don’t tell anyone’: Workplaces are filling up with sick employees
2 years, 11 months ago

‘Just wear a mask and don’t tell anyone’: Workplaces are filling up with sick employees

LA Times  

A complaint filed by four workers at fast-food chain Jack in the Box alleges management at a location in Folsom, Calif., dissuaded workers who reported feeling sick from quarantining and allowed them to work without masks. In an email Thursday, Jack in the Box spokesman Casey Middleton said the company requires franchisees to comply with federal, state and local health …

COVID-19 sick pay in California would return under deal between Newsom, lawmakers
2 years, 11 months ago

COVID-19 sick pay in California would return under deal between Newsom, lawmakers

LA Times  

Employee Diego Almendor has his temperature taken by owner Nicolas Montano before beginning his shift at Los Toros Mexican restaurant in Chatsworth on Feb. 27, 2021. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers reached an agreement Tuesday to again require employers to provide workers with up to two weeks of supplemental paid sick leave to recover from COVID-19 or care for a …

Congress Drops The Ball On Paid Leave As Millions Call Out Sick
2 years, 11 months ago

Congress Drops The Ball On Paid Leave As Millions Call Out Sick

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING As the highly contagious omicron variant of COVID-19 ravages the country, putting kids out of school and forcing workers to isolate at home, companies are cutting down paid leave benefits, forcing Americans to either take a pay cut or come to work sick. Paid leave advocates are calling out the growing sick leave crisis — one that …

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
3 years ago

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum

Associated Press  

As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck. What’s more, Schneider noted that the share of workers with paid sick leave before the pandemic barely budged during the pandemic — 50% versus 51% respectively. “Now I …

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
3 years ago

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum

LA Times  

As the raging Omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck. What’s more, Schneider noted that the share of workers with paid sick leave before the pandemic barely budged during the pandemic — 50% versus 51% respectively. “Now I …

Workers told they can take 28 days off sick without doctor’s note
3 years ago

Workers told they can take 28 days off sick without doctor’s note

The Independent  

Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Workers have been told they can take 28 days off …

More sick leave after work-from-home advice was lifted
3 years, 1 month ago

More sick leave after work-from-home advice was lifted

NL Times  

Absenteeism due to illness increased from 4.2 percent to 4.6 percent in the period between when the Cabinet lifted the work-from-home advice at the end of September and reimplemented it last week. That is the largest increase since the outbreak of the coronavirus and the highest level in the pandemic, Financieele Dagblad reported based on figures from two large health …

Pandemic prompts firms to offer paid sick leave—but workers still don't get it
3 years, 3 months ago

Pandemic prompts firms to offer paid sick leave—but workers still don't get it

Live Mint  

As American confronted the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, a significant workplace divide came into focus: Millions of workers had no paid sick time, and millions more lacked enough paid time off to cover a severe illness. But while many workers who already enjoyed paid leave now have even greater benefits, many more low-wage, part-time and hourly workers, as well as …

Labor union concerned about sick employees unable to reintegrate during pandemic
3 years, 8 months ago

Labor union concerned about sick employees unable to reintegrate during pandemic

NL Times  

Thousands of employees on long-term sick leave are having trouble rejoining their workplaces during the pandemic, according to labor union CNV. As a consequence, thousands of people who spent more than two years on leave will suffer major financial difficulties when their paid leave gets cut by 30 percent, the union said. The union wants the government to subsidize employers …

Ontario’s COVID crisis: ‘This scenario was entirely preventable’
3 years, 8 months ago

Ontario’s COVID crisis: ‘This scenario was entirely preventable’

Al Jazeera  

Montreal, Canada – Dr Naheed Dosani says healthcare workers in Ontario are angry. “And the second I found out yesterday, immediately I asked them to write up the orders.” But for weeks before that, Ford had been easing restrictions based on case counts in various regions across Ontario despite health experts urging the right-wing, populist premier to keep measures in …

What to know about COVID paid sick leave in California
3 years, 9 months ago

What to know about COVID paid sick leave in California

LA Times  

With the 2021 COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave extension, which went into effect Monday, qualifying employees have access to up to 80 hours of paid time off for virus-related reasons. This week, we’ll be discussing paid sick leave in California — specifically the 2021 COVID-19 Supplemental Paid Sick Leave law that went into effect Monday. “We were seeing workers who …

New Mexico Legislature passes delayed sick leave mandate
3 years, 9 months ago

New Mexico Legislature passes delayed sick leave mandate

Associated Press  

SANTA FE, N.M. — New Mexico legislators early Friday passed a sweeping and contentious sick leave mandate for employees of private companies that would go into effect next year. “This bill is not designed for public employees; it’s designed for private employees,” Stewart responded, adding that most public employees have already obtained paid sick leave through bargaining agreements, making it …

California Legislature OKs expansion of paid sick leave
3 years, 9 months ago

California Legislature OKs expansion of paid sick leave

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — The California Legislature on Thursday voted to expand paid sick leave for about 10.4 million workers, sending a bill to Gov. “At a time when California is flush with cash, policymakers should not ask employers to become the state’s social safety net,” said Jennifer Barrera, executive vice president of the California Chamber of Commerce, who opposed the …

Panel approves paid sick days for home health care workers
3 years, 10 months ago

Panel approves paid sick days for home health care workers

Associated Press  

RICHMOND, Va. — A bill that would have mandated paid sick leave for a range of essential workers cleared a key Senate committee Monday, but only after it was sharply whittled down to cover only certain home health care workers. An amendment by Senate Democrats who did not want to impose such a mandate on private businesses limited the bill …

As COVID surges in Canada, workers ‘can’t afford to get sick’
3 years, 11 months ago

As COVID surges in Canada, workers ‘can’t afford to get sick’

Al Jazeera  

Toronto, Canada – When Carolina Lopez woke up with a sore throat in November, her mind immediately went to the worst-case scenario: COVID-19. Toronto’s board of health also urged the province to take up de Villa’s recommendations on paid sick days, as well as ensure all workers could take protected, paid leave to care for loved ones who are ill. …

Employers Will No Longer Be Required To Give Paid Leave To Workers With COVID-19
4 years ago

Employers Will No Longer Be Required To Give Paid Leave To Workers With COVID-19

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Starting Jan. 1, employers will no longer have to give workers with COVID-19, or those taking care of someone with the virus, two weeks of paid leave. “I fear that rather than offering a workable solution, the House bill will exacerbate the problem by forcing small businesses to pay wages they cannot afford and ‘helping’ them go …

Paid Sick Leave Significantly Reduces COVID-19 Cases, Study Finds
4 years, 2 months ago

Paid Sick Leave Significantly Reduces COVID-19 Cases, Study Finds

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING The emergency paid sick leave benefit passed by Congress in March to deal with the coronavirus pandemic kept a significant number of Americans from getting COVID-19, according to a peer-reviewed study published Thursday in the journal Health Affairs. It’s one tool in the toolbox that helps to bring down case numbers.” - Nicolas Ziebarth, associate professor at …

Column: America’s pathetic sick leave policies are killing our coronavirus response
4 years, 7 months ago

Column: America’s pathetic sick leave policies are killing our coronavirus response

LA Times  

The U.S. is the only rich country that fails to provide any nationally-mandated paid sick leave. — Jody Heymann, UCLA One developed country, South Korea, doesn’t provide paid sick leave as such, but does provide all workers with three weeks of paid time off that can be used as sick leave. The U.S. is among the few countries that don’t …

Ontario's Front-Line Workers Call For Paid Sick Days
4 years, 8 months ago

Ontario's Front-Line Workers Call For Paid Sick Days

Huff Post  

Carolina Jimenez, a registered nurse, Febe Jimenez, a personal support worker, and Tina Dagnall, a nursing aide, speak to reporters by video conference on April 16, 2020. HuffPost Canada The people running Ontario’s clinics, nursing homes and grocery stores during the COVID-19 pandemic “deserve more than a ‘thank you,’” one group of front-line workers said Thursday. “I’m a nurse at …

Trump's Labor Department Takes A Hacksaw To Coronavirus Paid Sick Leave
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump's Labor Department Takes A Hacksaw To Coronavirus Paid Sick Leave

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING What started out as a valiant effort to provide Americans with paid sick leave during an unprecedented health care crisis has ended with a paltry measure that will barely cover anyone who is still working in the COVID-19 economy. On Thursday, the Department of Labor published guidelines on the new paid sick leave and family leave provisions …

Column: The coronavirus bill is a big step toward stimulus that helps you, not corporate bigwigs
4 years, 9 months ago

Column: The coronavirus bill is a big step toward stimulus that helps you, not corporate bigwigs

LA Times  

Someone was paying attention to the lessons of the last bailout. The $2-trillion stimulus bill on which Congress will start voting Wednesday includes several provisions aimed at making sure that the government’s massive bailout of big business comes with at least some strings attached and that ordinary households get help. — The bad: The bill incorporates limits on executive compensation …

From Grocery Stores To Pizza Delivery, Some Companies Are On A Hiring Spree
4 years, 9 months ago

From Grocery Stores To Pizza Delivery, Some Companies Are On A Hiring Spree

NPR  

From Grocery Stores To Pizza Delivery, Some Companies Are On A Hiring Spree Enlarge this image toggle caption Rogelio V. Solis/AP Rogelio V. Solis/AP At a time when millions of Americans are losing jobs at restaurants, hotels and airlines because of the coronavirus pandemic, a few large companies are on a hiring spree. And that means a new hiring push …

Americans Want Paid Sick Leave For Coronavirus Crisis. Why Won't Congress Deliver?
4 years, 9 months ago

Americans Want Paid Sick Leave For Coronavirus Crisis. Why Won't Congress Deliver?

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING As the battle over emergency legislation to address the coronavirus pandemic plays out in Congress, one thing is becoming clear: Paid sick leave for workers is absolutely crucial, and the American public recognizes it — even if some lawmakers don’t. President Donald Trump signed a watered-down paid sick leave provision into law last week as part of …

Workers should come first in emergency Coronavirus legislation (opinion)
4 years, 9 months ago

Workers should come first in emergency Coronavirus legislation (opinion)

CNN  

Editor’s Note: Rick Santorum is a CNN senior political commentator and a former Republican senator from Pennsylvania. Congress is currently negotiating a new stimulus package and has the opportunity to provide real support to working families that will also uphold the economy until this emergency passes. Last week, President Donald Trump signed into law a coronavirus relief package that provides …

Column: Coronavirus will hurt us all. But it will be worst for those who have the least
4 years, 9 months ago

Column: Coronavirus will hurt us all. But it will be worst for those who have the least

LA Times  

For many salaried, white-collar employees, the coronavirus crisis will be burdensome, scary, even painful, but financially survivable. — Jim Conway, Olive Garden worker Two weeks ago, Darden Restaurants, the corporate owner of Olive Garden, announced that it would provide full-time workers with up to five paid sick days. Under Darden’s policy of advancing its workers paid sick days based on …

After Denying At-Risk Workers Paid Leave, Kroger Relaxes Policies Slightly [UPDATE]
4 years, 9 months ago

After Denying At-Risk Workers Paid Leave, Kroger Relaxes Policies Slightly [UPDATE]

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Two Kroger supermarket employees who need to self-quarantine because they are at high risk of contracting COVID-19 said that the chain was refusing to provide them with emergency paid leave. A pharmacy assistant at a Kroger in New Mexico told HuffPost that she’d hoped to qualify for the emergency sick leave. “I’m just as scared to be …

Column: The coronavirus crisis shows what happens when a country puts its workers last
4 years, 9 months ago

Column: The coronavirus crisis shows what happens when a country puts its workers last

LA Times  

The most familiar observation about the human reaction to abject terror is the one stating that “there are no atheists in foxholes.” We’re about to see how that aphorism applies in modern American politics. And many who sounded the siren about the economic drag of government deficits and the national debt are saying, “Never mind.” Here’s White House economic advisor …

Stimulus: Here’s what you can expect to get from the coronavirus relief packages
4 years, 9 months ago

Stimulus: Here’s what you can expect to get from the coronavirus relief packages

CNN  

A version of this story appeared in CNN What Matters newsletter. Senate approves a $104 billion bill that would give direct help to many Americans, including: 2-week paid sick leave for ill or quarantined workers Who gets it? Most of the 35 million American workers at small businesses don’t currently get paid family leave. Senate GOP would give slightly bigger …

What Working While Sick Taught Me About The Risk Of Coronavirus For All Of Us
4 years, 9 months ago

What Working While Sick Taught Me About The Risk Of Coronavirus For All Of Us

Huff Post  

Thomas Barwick via Getty Images “If you want a vacation, quit your day job.” I lost count of how many times I heard that popular phrase when I worked as a cook, and now that attitude could be helping the coronavirus spread. No wonder 51% of food workers routinely go to work sick and 38% admit to sometimes clocking in …

US sick leave aid leaves millions of workers in the cold
4 years, 9 months ago

US sick leave aid leaves millions of workers in the cold

Al Jazeera  

It’s usually standing room only at O’Duffy’s Pub on St Patrick’s Day, as patrons clad in green pack into the bar to share a drink or two and plenty of food. “And we don’t know how long this is going to last.” On Wednesday, President Trump signed into law the The Families First Coronavirus Response Act extending free coronavirus testing …

Trump Signs Coronavirus Aid Bill
4 years, 9 months ago

Trump Signs Coronavirus Aid Bill

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING WASHINGTON ― After some changes that watered down its paid sick leave provisions over the weekend, a bipartisan bill offering financial relief to vulnerable Americans affected by the coronavirus was passed by the U.S. Senate and signed by Trump on Wednesday. The bill will make coronavirus testing free, expand unemployment insurance benefits, give paid leave to some …

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