sick leave

The proposals in Missouri and Nebraska passed by comfortable margins, and one in Alaska appeared likely to pass with about 70% of votes counted early Wednesday.

The pandemic underscored the importance of paid sick leave, a benefit to help workers and their families when they fall ill. Now voters in Missouri, Nebraska, and Alaska are deciding whether employers must provide it.

The U.S. is one of nine countries that do not guarantee paid sick leave. Since the pandemic, advocates are organizing to take the issue to voters in several states with ballot initiatives this November.

Under a new bill, counties and cities could require employers to give workers benefits like sick pay.

A new NPR poll shows about a third of working adults have no sick leave, even as more people are living with chronic health problems that require regular care.

A measure that would let employees working in Florida earn sick time has failed.

A hospital social worker is suing Broward Health, saying officials refused to let her return to work after she underwent a double mastectomy and refused…