'In the midst of a horrific pandemic, two-thirds of low-wage workers still lack access to paid sick leave. That is barbaric,' says SenSanders. 'We must guarantee that all workers have a right to paid sick leave.'
published Monday byand the advocacy group More Perfect Union, workers at Red Lobster, the seafood restaurant chain owned by the private equity firm Golden Gate Capital, are being forced to report for work under threat of reprimands that could lead to termination.James Swartz worked as a bartender at a Pennsylvania Red Lobster for a year-and-a-half starting in December 2019. He was paid $3.50 per hour, plus tips.
that"we don't have sick days and yes, I go into work when I'm sick. If we call off, we get written up.""It's a vicious cycle," Daniel Schneider, professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government,."As staffing gets depleted because people are out sick, that means that those that are on the job have more to do and are even more reluctant to call in sick when they in turn get sick.
"I thought I was doing the right thing by protecting my co-workers," the worker—who lost $160 per day off—said."Now I wish I just would've gone to work and not said anything."Monday that"there's a simple answer" to these workers' dilemma:"Paid leave."
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