Via Seattle Coalition for a Healthy Workforce: It’s been a long fight, but the will of the voters has prevailed in Milwaukee – for now. Yesterday, the Wisconsin Court of Appeals upheld Milwaukee’s voter-approved paid sick days ordinance, nearly two and a half years after its initial passage. Passed by a 69% majority (and nowContinue reading “A big win for voters: Wisconsin court upholds Milwaukee voter-approved paid sick days law”
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Cough if you need sick leave
The short, lumpy red couch in Stili Klikizos’ second-grade classroom at Milwaukee’s Fratney Elementary School was meant for quiet-time reading. Now it’s “the sick couch,” a place for ill students to lie down as they await the bus that takes everybody home at day’s end. “The parents work and will lose pay if theyContinue reading “Cough if you need sick leave”
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