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The Healthy Families Act would allow an additional 30 million workers to have access to paid sick leave from their jobs, including 15 million low-wage workers and 13 million women workers. If the bill were to become law, 90 percent of all American workers would have access to paid sick days (up from 61 percent currently). [29]
As a result, around 1 in 5 U.S. workers don’t have access to paid sick days, and they are more likely to work in the lowest-paying jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Workers without paid sick leave will go to work while sick, spreading the infections to other workers. Nearly seven in ten U.S. workers (68 percent) report they have gone to work with the stomach flu or other contagious disease. [12] Nearly half reported that they went to work sick because they could not afford to lose the pay. [13]
Workers in three states are now entitled to paid sick leave for the first time. In Alaska, most workers are now entitled to at least 40 hours of paid sick leave a year. Larger employers in the ...
The policy allows workers at businesses of 26 or more employees to take paid time off to recover from COVID-19, care for a family member, or get a vaccine. New COVID-19 sick pay for California ...
Emergency Paid Sick Leave must be in addition to any benefits that employees already accrue. Emergency Paid Sick Leave cannot reduce existing employee benefits or rights. [6] A full-time employee may take up to 80 hours of Emergency Paid Sick Leave. A part-time employee may take up to the amount of hours they work in an average two-week period. [6]
Topping the new laws that go into effect on Jan. 1 is the state's new paid pre-natal leave policy, allowing pregnant employees to take 20 hours of paid leave for a long list of pregnancy-related ...
Department of Labor poster notifying employees of rights under the Fair Labor Standards Act. The Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 29 U.S.C. § 203 [1] (FLSA) is a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and "time-and-a-half" overtime pay when people work over forty hours a week.