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Perspective

Sep. 9, 2014

Go to work sick or risk your job, that's the question

Employees who do not have paid sick days face an impossible choice when they or a family member gets sick: go to work sick or distracted, or stay home without pay and potentially risk their jobs. By Julia Parish


By Julia Parish


Everyone gets sick or needs to care for a sick family member at some point. When this happens, employees who do not have paid sick days face an impossible choice: go to work sick or distracted, or stay home without pay and potentially risk their jobs.


The California Legislature recently took a historic step for California's working families and passed Assembly Bill 1522, which will provide workers in California the guarantee of earne...

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