Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
2 years, 11 months 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 wish I just would’ve gone to work and not said anything.” A Trader Joe’s worker in California, who also asked not to be named because they didn’t want to risk their job, said the company lets workers accrue paid time off that they can use for vacations or sick days. ″If the company goes under, no one has work.” Even when paid sick leave is available, workers aren’t always made aware of it.

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Ill-gotten gains: Why does American society coerce us to work while sick?
10 months, 1 week 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, 2 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 …

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 …

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 …

Britain’s sickness crisis is damaging the economy and will only get worse
2 years, 1 month ago

Britain’s sickness crisis is damaging the economy and will only get worse

The Telegraph  

“NHS backlogs and long COVID seem to be making a contribution to the increase in poor health,” says David Finch at the Health Foundation, “ this is something that's been happening over the longer term where gradually we've been seeing a rise in the number of people with long term sickness.” He adds: “Some of this is demographic change where …

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, 6 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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, 10 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 …

5 COVID Pandemic Effects You're Feeling At Work Right Now
2 years, 11 months ago

5 COVID Pandemic Effects You're Feeling At Work Right Now

Huff Post  

martin-dm via Getty Images The omicron surge is turning many employees' lives — and emotions — upside down. “My clients are constantly trying to stay ambitious in their careers and lives, while simultaneously processing the reality that they’re still living in a pandemic and healing from work exhaustion,” she said. “Healthcare workers saw the greatest declines in feeling that someone …

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 …

As hospitals reel, California tells coronavirus-positive medical workers to stay on the job
2 years, 11 months ago

As hospitals reel, California tells coronavirus-positive medical workers to stay on the job

LA Times  

Daylong waits in the emergency room. State officials are attempting to address California’s staffing shortage through a sweeping policy change that allows asymptomatic healthcare workers who have tested positive for the coronavirus to return to work immediately. The decision is “irresponsible and a huge mistake that will jeopardize everyone’s health,” said Rosanna Mendez, executive director of SEIU 121RN, a union …

Health officials let COVID-infected staff stay on the job
2 years, 11 months ago

Health officials let COVID-infected staff stay on the job

Associated Press  

Health authorities around the U.S. are increasingly taking the extraordinary step of allowing nurses and other workers infected with the coronavirus to stay on the job if they have mild symptoms or none at all. “We are doing everything we can to ensure our employees can safely return to work while protecting our patients and staff from the transmissibility of …

Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
2 years, 11 months 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 …

Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers
2 years, 11 months ago

Omicron is latest blow to pandemic-weary front-line workers

Associated Press  

BOSTON — Staff absences for COVID-19 tripled this month in London’s hospitals, and nearly 10% of the city’s firefighters called out sick. “Some of us have been going like a freight train.” The worldwide surge in coronavirus cases driven by the new omicron variant is the latest blow to hospitals, police departments, supermarkets and other critical operations struggling to maintain …

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, 2 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, 7 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 …

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