Access to paid sick leave 🤒 is unequal: ⬆️ In the top 25% of workers by wages, ➡️ 94% have access to paid sick days. ⬇️ But in the bottom 25% of workers by wages, ➡️ only 58% have access to paid sick days. 🧵1/3 www.epi.org/blog/access-...
Absent federal action, states and localities have expanded workers’ ability to earn paid sick leave to care for themselves and their families. The results of these efforts over the past dozen years ar...
Minnesota got it done! Thanks to Tim Walz!
It would be great if you include the country in your posts. Paid sick leave is pretty much standard in every country around here 🤷♂️
It's similar in a way to adaptability to heat - the top wage earners have AC offices, making them productive while many other income earners see lower productivity due to heat. Not being able to take a sick day compounds in reducing productivity, reducing wages.
Access to sick leave varies across the private sector: ⏰ Full-time workers are more likely to have paid sick leave than part-time workers (87% vs. 55%) ✊ And - no surprise - unionized workers have greater access to paid sick days than nonunion workers (84% vs. 79%) 🧵2/3