https://virginiamercury.com/2025/03/10/surprise-us-gov-youngkin-sign-the-paid-sick-days-bill/ “a year after the law was enacted, 86% of employers supported it” #PaidSickLeave #Virginia #VALeg #PublicHealth

Why U.S. Dream Jobs Don’t Compare to German Standards (And How U.S. Propaganda Keeps It That Way)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIuzYswgmHE
#workersRights #WorkLifeBalance #USvEU #Politics #Propaganda #Unions #PaidVacation #PaidSickLeave #Exploitation #BeliefSystems #socialism #laborProtection

Status update: now at death's door..

Ugh, this is what I get for missing the flu jab at work this year

Lesson 1: always take the #PaidSickLeave
Lesson 2: get a flu vaccine.

https://fediscience.org/@Ruth_Mottram/111521155363511578
@Ruth_Mottram - TFW you're unwell, but not like at death's door and very conscious of the multiple tasks piling up at work.

I know objectively I should take the sick day but....

I'm encouraged that the Biden administration is sending #covid19 rapid tests to schools this winter, but it's also frustrating how much more we can and should do to contain the #pandemic and protect everyone's health.

Rapid tests aren't very good at detecting the new #covid variants, and while a positive rapid test is still accurate, they give a lot of false negatives, so kids are likely to still come to school with covid and spread it to classmates, teachers, and other staff. Plus, unless we #BringBackMasks, install proper air filtration and ventilation in schools, and give everyone in the US #PaidSickLeave, testing alone doesn't do much. We should be doing all we can to prevent covid infections and give people to tools they need to isolate when they're sick rather than just catching infections after the fact.

In some ways, this is just the latest reminder that we could get covid under control. We just choose not to.

Anyway, I recommend folks #MaskUp because we know this is going to be an awful winter.

It’s almost 2024, which means it is time to start gearing up to get in compliance with all the new employment laws that are dropping in California.

One of the big changes that caught my eye is the new Paid Sick Leave, or PSL, rules. Starting January 1, 2024, the minimum amount of PSL for all California employees (who work 30 or more days with the same employer over the course of a year) is nearly doubling.

Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash.

#LawFedi #fedilaw #employmentlaw #paidsickleave

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After years of organizing and advocacy, workers in CA just won more paid sick days! #PaidSickLeave #WorkersRights #CALeg #labor #GavinNewsom
https://www.seiu2015.org/bill-to-guarantee-ca-workers-5-paid-sick-days-year-signed-into-law/

Access to paid sick leave is 10 percentage points lower among full-time workers in U.S. rural vs. urban areas (68% v. 77%) -- increasing the likelihood people will work contagious or forgo health care. These inequities will likely persist if change if left to individual employers or localities. #RuralAmerica #PaidSickLeave #PaidLeave #NICHDImpact
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35881497

Sanders Unveils Bill Guaranteeing Up to 7 Days of Paid Sick Leave for US Workers — The U.S. is the only wealthy country in the world without universal paid sick leave.

https://truthout.org/articles/sanders-unveils-bill-guaranteeing-up-to-7-days-of-paid-sick-leave-for-us-workers/

CA workers need sick day protections NOW! #SB616 will help. If you live in California, please call on your legislators to support at https://www.workfamilyca.org/paidsickdaysnow
#SB616Now #PaidSickLeave #WorkersRights #CALeg

Sanders to Join Rail Workers in Fresh Demand for Paid Sick Leave https://www.commondreams.org/news/sanders-rail-workers-sick-leave
Will @aoc and the rest of the (D) "socialist" crew who exerted themselves to prevent the railworkers from striking last time, confront Sanders on this? You musn't upset the (D) House & Senate while they're busily playing the stock market, by fostering this nasty labor uppityness, you know.
#Railworkers #PaidSickLeave #Sanders #FakeSocialists

Access to paid sick leave is 10 percentage points lower among full-time workers in U.S. rural vs. urban areas (68% v. 77%) -- increasing the likelihood people will work contagious or forgo health care. These inequities will likely persist if change if left to individual employers or localities.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35881497

I'm a little behind in sharing, but my colleagues and I wrote about the decision to impose a #contract on US #railroad #workers after it failed to pass muster with their #union rank-and-file. The contract had been rejected because it lacked #PaidSickLeave . My coauthors and I explain why paid sick leave and the right to #strike are important to protect workers, and why protecting workers is the key to making our #SupplyChain more resilient. https://cepr.net/the-little-engine-that-couldnt-have-paid-sick-leave/

"At a moment when the railroad workers had maximum power in relation to the supply chain and the need for their essential work, the White House and the Democratic and the Republican Party leadership put their fingers on the scale and tipped it in favor of corporate America at the expense of the workers and human decency."

Postal Worker Union Statement in #solidarity with #RailroadWorkers
#PaidSickLeave

https://apwu.org/news/statement-apwu-president-mark-dimondstein-congressional-action-against-union-rights-railroad