5.29.2015

This is not just a women's issue or a labor issue…

“We are the only advanced country on Earth that doesn’t guarantee paid sick leave or paid maternity leave to our workers. Forty-three million workers have no paid sick leave—forty-three million. Think about that,” [Obama] said.

…(although it is both of those things), it's also a public health issue—and difficult to see how a country just recovering from a collective meltdown over a couple stray cases of ebola doesn't get that. When you dock people's pay for not coming to work sick, you're just plain dumb.

[The story is here.]

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