California and Illinois are considering laws that would give extra sick time to employees like school staff and food service workers, who have staged protests in recent weeks over a lack of Covid protections
LOS ANGELES — The Omicron strain has infected workers at unprecedented rates, but the bipartisan anxiety that pushed Congress to pass a temporary paid sick leave mandate just two years ago is long gone.
.week on a temporary mandate pushed by Gov. Gavin Newsom. By the time the highly contagious Omicron variant began spreading through communities in late December and early January, there was no federal program in place. Nearly 9 million Americansin January because they were sick with Covid or caring for someone who was.
toward employee benefits, including sick leave. That won’t help states like California that have already allocated all of that aid, but“I do expect in coming weeks we're going to see more states and cities proposing really a range of different approaches,” said Jared Make, vice president of worker advocacy group A Better Balance.
“The chamber continues to believe there is a fiscally responsible, bipartisan approach to providing a federal paid family leave benefit,” Marc Freedman, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s vice president of employment policy, said in a statement. “We believe that such a deal can be forged, but this partisan reconciliation bill is certainly not the vehicle to achieve a sensible solution to making sure paid family leave is available on a nationwide basis.
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