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 enacted last month as part of Congress’s second coronavirus relief act. Under the department’s new guidelines essentially anyone who works for a business that is even remotely attached to the health care industry will not get paid sick leave or paid family leave. The Labor Department’s guideline on health care providers gives an exemption not only for doctors but also “anyone employed at any doctor’s office, hospital, health care center, clinic.” And the list goes on: Anyone working at a medical school, health department or agency, retirement home, nursing home, any home health care provider or laboratory that does testing.

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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 …

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 …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

‘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 …

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 …

Workers’ Rights During COVID-19: How The Workplace Could Change Forever
4 years, 7 months ago

Workers’ Rights During COVID-19: How The Workplace Could Change Forever

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, workers have faced a series of impossible choices. If you’ve been classified as an essential worker but your workplace lacks basic protective equipment, what do you do? If you can’t afford child care, do you stay at home to watch your kids ― or do you clock in to work so you can …

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 …

People With Disabilities Were Already Overlooked. Coronavirus Is Making It Worse.
4 years, 9 months ago

People With Disabilities Were Already Overlooked. Coronavirus Is Making It Worse.

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Disability rights advocate and wheelchair user Ryan Honick relies on public transit or rideshare options to get to appointments and go grocery shopping in Washington, D.C. “People with disabilities need equal access to critical COVID-19 updates and official communications, which means sign language interpreters, captioning, and plain language,” Neil Romano, chairman of the National Council on Disability, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Coronavirus: Tory MP tells constituent to 'get a life' when asked how to survive on statutory sick pay
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus: Tory MP tells constituent to 'get a life' when asked how to survive on statutory sick pay

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy A Conservative MP has apologised after she told a constituent worried …

Republicans, White House Gut Paid Sick Leave In Coronavirus Bill
4 years, 9 months ago

Republicans, White House Gut Paid Sick Leave In Coronavirus Bill

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Under pressure from the White House and business groups, House Democrats agreed to further water down paid sick and family leave provisions in the coronavirus emergency bill currently awaiting a Senate vote. “The carve-outs that came in last night through pressure from Republicans and the White House have dramatically weakened what started out as a strong paid …

Health care workers getting sicker from coronavirus than other patients, expert says
4 years, 9 months ago

Health care workers getting sicker from coronavirus than other patients, expert says

CNN  

CNN — The novel coronavirus seems to hit health care workers harder than others who contract the disease, but it’s unclear why, according to disease experts. “We know the high mortality in older people, but for reasons that we don’t understand, front-line health care workers are at great risk for serious illness despite their younger age,” Dr. Peter Hotez, professor …

Bipartisan virus relief bill: Free testing, paid sick leave
4 years, 9 months ago

Bipartisan virus relief bill: Free testing, paid sick leave

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The Democratic-controlled House, with President Donald Trump’s support, early Saturday passed a bill to provide free testing for the coronavirus, as well as paid sick and family leave, strengthened unemployment insurance and increased food aid to ease the hardship on families. It would require paid leave for workers who contract the virus or who care for those who …

Column: Forget Trump’s TV speech about the virus. Here’s what he should, and shouldn’t, do
4 years, 9 months ago

Column: Forget Trump’s TV speech about the virus. Here’s what he should, and shouldn’t, do

LA Times  

There really is no serious debate about the steps the Trump administration should be taking to address the novel coronavirus crisis, in terms of both public health or economic relief. There’s also the alarming outbreak of sycophancy among federal officials such as Vice President Mike Pence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Director Robert Redfield and Surgeon Gen. Jerome Adams, …

Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Standoff: Paid Sick Leave, A Payroll Tax Cut — Or Both
4 years, 9 months ago

Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Standoff: Paid Sick Leave, A Payroll Tax Cut — Or Both

Huff Post  

WASHINGTON ― It’s starting to look like a classic standoff between Capitol Hill and the White House: Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Democrats insist that a Coronavirus stimulus bill primarily address paid sick leave while President Donald Trump and some Republicans hold strong for a payroll tax cut. The ranking GOP member of the Ways and Means Committee, Rep. Kevin Brady …

Coronavirus: Trump floats measures to swell workers’ paycheques
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus: Trump floats measures to swell workers’ paycheques

Al Jazeera  

Trump discusses waiving the payroll tax through the end of the year or indefinitely to shore up economy, says source. United States President Donald Trump on Tuesday said the coronavirus outbreak would “go away” and urged Americans to remain calm as the number of confirmed cases climbs, heaping pressure on the White House to boost its response to the health …

Coronavirus quarantine raises questions about annual leave and workers' rights
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus quarantine raises questions about annual leave and workers' rights

ABC  

NSW is facing a major industrial relations headache amid the spread of coronavirus, after some State Government employees were told quarantine periods would come out of their annual leave. Key points: Employees face losing annual leave or being unpaid during quarantine An expert said it could mean vulnerable employees work through quarantine periods It comes as a Melbourne doctor continued …

Coronavirus: Unions call for all workers to receive sick pay if outbreak keeps them home
4 years, 10 months ago

Coronavirus: Unions call for all workers to receive sick pay if outbreak keeps them home

The Independent  

Sign up for the View from Westminster email for expert analysis straight to your inbox Get our free View from Westminster email Get our free View from Westminster email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. And the TUC called for an increase in the £94.50-a-week payment, warning that almost half …

About Half Of Working Americans Say They Went To Work Sick In The Last Year
4 years, 10 months ago

About Half Of Working Americans Say They Went To Work Sick In The Last Year

Huff Post  

LOADING ERROR LOADING Roughly half of working Americans say they’ve gone to work sick within the past 12 months, a new HuffPost/YouGov survey finds. Forty-seven percent of Americans who work part- or full-time say they’ve gone to work sick in the last year because they couldn’t take time off or because they felt they shouldn’t do so, according to the …

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