Expanding Paid Sick Leave Laws: The Public Health Imperative.
Hastings Cent Rep
; 53(1): 6-10, 2023 Jan.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-2278859
ABSTRACT
A key public health measure has received far too little attention over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic paid sick leave policies that encourage people at risk of spreading disease to stay home rather than come to work. The United States is one of the only developed countries that fails to guarantee paid sick leave at the federal level, leaving a patchwork of state and private policies that undersupply time off when people are contagious and protect top wage earners at wildly disproportionate rates compared with what workers with lower incomes experience. Other countries have shown that sick leave mandates are neither unjustified burdens on employers nor gratuitous giveaways to employees. In fact, sick leave saves on health care costs by making employees less likely to infect coworkers, to be absent for longer themselves, or to need treatment in expensive hospital emergency departments. Nationally guaranteed sick leave is urgently needed to promote public health.
Keywords
Full text:
Available
Collection:
International databases
Database:
MEDLINE
Main subject:
Sick Leave
/
COVID-19
Type of study:
Prognostic study
Limits:
Humans
Country/Region as subject:
North America
Language:
English
Journal:
Hastings Cent Rep
Year:
2023
Document Type:
Article
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