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Showing posts with label paid sick leave. Show all posts
Showing posts with label paid sick leave. Show all posts
Thursday, July 30, 2026
Wednesday, August 13, 2025
‘A literal gut punch’: Missouri workers devastated by Republican repeal of paid sick leave
"If you're not paid for missed days, it literally means food off your table, bills unpaid, rent unpaid, then that can lead towards homelessness. Some of the people I know in the movement are currently homeless but still are fighting back against this," said Thompson. "I was very disappointed and disgusted that hard-working taxpayers this would have helped matters so little to them."Thompson helped gather signatures for the paid-sick-leave and minimum-wage-increase ballot initiative because of his experiences of working through illnesses and losing income when he had to take off to care for his ailing mother...
Tuesday, July 15, 2025
How Republican officials in one state are trying to veto the will of voters (again)
"When Missouri voters were asked last year whether they wanted to increase the minimum wage and require employers to provide paid sick leave, 58 percent of them said yes. Not long after that vote, the Republicans who control the state government mobilized to unwind those changes. On Thursday, Gov. Mike Kehoe, a Republican, signed into law a bill that limited the voter-approved minimum wage increase and scrapped the paid sick leave requirement altogether..."
Wednesday, May 21, 2025
Missouri Republicans Vote To Repeal Sick Leave Referendum | HuffPost Latest News
Unlike other wealthy countries, the U.S. does not require employers to provide sick leave. So an estimated 20% of workers go without it, meaning they lose a day's pay when they have to care for themselves or a loved one who's ill. Those with no access to paid sick days are much more likely to work in low-wage jobs, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Monday, February 6, 2023
Opinion | Doctors Aren’t Burned Out From Overwork. We’re Demoralized by Our Health System. - The New York Times
Doctors can no longer be passive witnesses to these harms. We have a responsibility to use our collective power to insist on changes: for universal health care and paid sick leave but also investments in community health worker programs and essential housing and social welfare systems...
Friday, December 2, 2022
WATCH: Pelosi speaks on Trump’s tax returns, legislation to halt rail strike | PBS NewsHour
"It's outrageous that every developed country in the world has paid sick leave except the United States of America," Pelosi said…
Thursday, December 1, 2022
Bernie Sanders Mocks GOP Senators Who Claim To Care About Rail Workers | HuffPost Latest News
"During the first three quarters of this year, the rail industry made a record-breaking $21.2 billion in profits," the senators' statement read. "Guaranteeing 7 paid sick days to rail workers would only cost the industry $321 million a year ― less than 2 percent of their total profits. Please do not tell us that the rail industry cannot afford to guarantee paid sick days to their workers."…
Wednesday, December 23, 2020
Businesses Will No Longer Have To Provide Paid Leave For Workers With COVID After Mitch McConnell Objected
... The United States is an outlier in not requiring any form of paid sick leave. The Center for Economic and Policy Research analyzed the sick leave policies of 22 wealthy nations and found that the US was the only country without some form of paid sick leave...
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