Pandemic-Related Paid Sick Days and Leave to Expire Dec. 31 — With No Extension in Sight
By Steven Findlay
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In addition, the law has no guarantee of paid sick days or leave for the nation’s 13 million health care and emergency response workers.
The justification for that when the measure was enacted: Hospitals, clinics, nursing homes and emergency response companies needed to ensure that these essential workers would show up in a time of crisis.
“This was extremely shortsighted and bad policy,” said Pronita Gupta, director of job quality at the Center for Law and Social Policy in Washington, D.C. “We have seen the harmful outcome — the high number of coronavirus cases in health care facilities, especially among low-wage nursing home workers.”
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