Nearly half of Americans have no sick leave

by Doug Cunningham on November 10, 2009 - 5:46pm

The Senate's HELP Committee Tuesday held a hearing on the Healthy Families Act that would provide up to seven paid sick days a year to some workers who don't have them.

Debra Nass of the National Partnership for Women And Families told the committee that 48 percent of U.S. private sector workers have no paid sick leave.

She says while working families always struggle with this burden, it’s especially difficult now with the nationwide H1N1 flu virus emergency.

Rightardia can imagine the Republican response if a sick leave bill is introduced.  

The Republicans will whine that private enterprise won't be able to afford sick leave and workers will have to be let go. It's the same old broken record we have been hearing from the GOP since the 1950's.

http://www.laborradio.org/node/12332

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