Bernie Sanders’ estimate that only 12% of essential workers would qualify for paid sick leave under the congressional coronavirus relief package exposes the chokehold that large-employer ...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the 2018–19 influenza season yielded 29 million illnesses, 380,000 hospitalizations, and 28,000 deaths. 2 Many workers facing high ...

Even before the Covid-19 pandemic or Omicron variant emerged, the lack of paid sick leave and the service sector’s short-staffing model caused economically insecure workers to work, despite ...

Information regarding sick leave can be found on the Office of Faculty Affairs website. Summary: Nine-month faculty accrue sick leave at the rate of 11 days for each academic year or 5.5 days for each ...

Jody Heymann and coauthors (September 2021) argued that the lack of national permanent paid sick leave legislation in the US could widen racial, ethnic, and gender gaps in leave access and cause heal ...

Many Americans still do not understand the complementary but different roles paid sick days and paid family and medical leave play for working families. Two fathers play with their son at their ...

The freight railroad CSX announced it had made a deal to provide paid sick leave to roughly 5,000 rail workers. The White House and lawmakers are pushing other railroads to follow suit.

The federal government’s HR agency confirmed that federal employees may use sick leave to travel to obtain reproductive health services, although the measure falls short of employee groups ...

The roughly 1 in 4 U.S. workers with no paid sick time are more likely to work while ill, data show, exposing colleagues and customers, and extending the outbreak’s reach.

Frontloading Sick Leave Will Likely Be Explicitly Permitted. Both SB 15 and HB 4002 explicitly allow employers to frontload the ESTA-required 72 hours of sick leave to employees instead of ...