[Antiracism] [Workers Rights] Paid Sick Days Rally 10/3

[WMass Jobs With Justice]

Wednesday October 3
	PAID SICK DAYS RALLY
	6:30pm, Bowles Elementary School, 254 Bowles Park, Springfield. Food
will be provided! Support a Massachusetts and a nation-wide campaign for
laws that guarantee paid sick days. Info: Association of Community
Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), 737-0169, mailto:maacornsp at acorn.org,
http://acorn.org/index.php?id=10836.
	
	Most people believe that workers have the right to paid sick days,
yet according to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost half of
full-time, private-sector workers have no sick days at all. Government data
also shows a national trend toward a reduction in paid sick days. In a March
2007 survey of 50 of the largest food-service and retail companies, ACORN
found that more than half did not offer any sick days to hourly employees.
	Workers need about 7 sick days each year to manage their own health
care. But for almost half of US employees, the absence of sick pay is likely
to cause them loss of income, a job or advancement, says the National
Partnership for Women & Families. Other consequences of a lack of paid sick
days include health effects, workplace contagion, reduced productivity,
turnover costs, poor recovery from illness and surgery, and increased use of
healthcare resources.
	The federal Family & Medical Leave Act enacted in 1993 provides only
unpaid days and only for serious illness. There is currently no federal law
guaranteeing a single day of paid sick leave to workers.
	The United States lags behind the rest of the world in requiring
employers to provide workers with paid sick days. Research from The Project
on Global Working Families at Harvard University found 139 nations provide
paid days for short or long-term illnesses.

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