The fight to expand access to paid sick leave continues even after President Biden decided not to include more than one day of paid sick leave in the recently “settled” contract for rail workers.
Last week, more than 70 members of Congress sent a letter to Biden calling on him to use an executive order to grant seven days of paid sick leave to rail workers. Unions across the country, including those representing pilots and graduate school workers, are putting sick and family leave at the center of their negotiations.
Paid sick leave is the right thing to do for individual and public health. Yet the United States is unique among high-income countries in not mandating that employers provide their workers with access to it. To be sure, the Family and Medical Leave Act provides for unpaid sick leave to workers, and 16 states have laws that can be used for sick leave. But that leaves millions of American workers forced to forgo pay when they are out sick.
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