Via The Retiree Advocate: New coalition aims for a healthier Seattle through paid sick days for all workers By Alex Stone It should be as fundamental a standard as the minimum wage and the 40-hour work week. Yet one million Washington workers can’t take a single paid day off from work when they – orContinue reading “Sick Days for All Workers”
Category Archives: Paid Sick Days
Why you should care about paid sick leave
From The Washington Post: If you’re about to eat in a restaurant, you should read this first. Or then again, maybe you’d rather not. A report being released at a Congressional hearing later this morning by the D.C.-based Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (“a national restaurant workers’ organization, comprised of restaurant worker organizations across the country,”Continue reading “Why you should care about paid sick leave”
Paid sick leave does not harm business growth or job growth
The Drum Major Institute (DMI) has released a new report titled “Paid Sick Leave Does Not Harm Business Growth or Job Growth“. It is an update to DMI’s March 2010 report that found no causal link between paid sick days and boilerplate opposition claims that they harm employment. The new report examines employment statistics inContinue reading “Paid sick leave does not harm business growth or job growth”
Washington Work and Family Coalition 