Category Archives: Paid Sick Days
Make sure candidates know you and your family care about paid sick days and paid family leave!
Washington’s regular 2012 legislative session ended without action on the Paid Sick Days bill. The special session that convened in mid-March is focused on the state budget. Will Washington’s 2013-14 Legislature support paid sick days and paid family and medical … Continue reading
Paid sick days: 5 million fewer cases of the flu, $1 billion in taxpayer savings
Cross-posted from Washington Policy Watch: A growing body of evidence shows that a minimum standard for paid sick days would not only improve people’s health – it would also save the nation’s bottom line. According to a recent report published … Continue reading
Koala zombies, germ warfare and paid sick days
Have you heard about the highly contagious Koala flu that turns people into horrifying, albeit adorable, zombie marsupials who subsist only on human thigh meat and eucalyptus leaves? No, you haven’t, because it hasn’t happened — yet. When it does, … Continue reading