It's not fun to think about eating at the Queen Village restaurant where Maureen works as a server. She can get time off for being sick, but only if she finds someone to fill her shift. "I've gone to work with the flu," she said, in an article I wrote in today's Philadelphia Inquirer on paid sick time. "It's disturbing," she said.
In a time when an overhaul of the nation's health care system is in the daily headlines and people are making grandiose pronouncements, it's also time to focus on what happens when people actually get sick. One telling statistic: barely one in three low-wage workers (under $10.63 an hour) has paid sick time. Besides all the legislation in Washington on the health system, there is legislation at a national, state and city level on earned sick pay.
I just wanted to provide a little more information on the sick pay legislation that I mentioned in the story.
The federal legislation is known as the Healthy Families Act (Senate Bill 1152 and House Bill 2460).
The Pennsylvania legislation is called the Healthy Families, Healthy Workplaces Act (House Bill 1830).
The Philadelphia measure is titled Promoting Healthy Families and Workplaces (Bill Number 080474).
New Jersey passed sick pay legislation last year.
More on the legislation Monday.
Every day for 60 days, Inquirer staff writer Jane M. Von Bergen profiled someone from the ranks of the region’s unemployed.
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