Around the country, there are campaigns to pass a bill mandating companies to give paid sick days to their employees. Paid sick leave is a critical element of job security and quality for American workers, yet forty percent of private sector workers today have no such leave. The United States is amongst only a handful of nations that has no legislation requiring paid sick leave for workers. 86 percent of Americans favor a law that guarantees paid sick leave for all workers. Even with popular vote, congress won’t approve such an act in a capitalist economy but instead it is in the hands of the state legislature. Paid sick leave not only gives workers the opportunity to regain their health. Paid leave also allows employees to return to work fully productive, and helps stop the spread of disease to co-workers and customers. As a result, paid sick leave can reduce employers’ overall costs while …show more content…
Without social health protection that includes paid sick leave many people working can’t be at home comfortable knowing that they are not getting their income for the day. Proposals allowing workers to earn paid time off to use when they’re sick or caring for a sick child have spread throughout the nation. Even in some places where proposals to make employers provide paid sick leave haven’t yet become law, the employers still give paid sick leave due to their company’s policy. Paid sick leave proposals have proved to be about much more than a little time off. The fight over these bills has become a fight about the nature of democracy. So far, laws guaranteeing paid sick days have only passed in clear democratic areas. Most voters support paid sick days, including a healthy majority of independents and Republicans. This truly does test how much the people are in control of the government, if there is even popular