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Pandemic intensifies Va. sick leave debate Laura Vozzella, The Washington Post Dec. 24, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail Del. Elizabeth R. Guzman, a Democrat representing Prince William County, is one of the lead proponents of requiring employers in Virginia to offer paid sick leave.photo for The Washington Post by Timothy C. Wright. RICHMOND, Va. - When the General Assembly reconvenes next month, lawmakers will resume their battle over whether to require employers to offer paid sick leave - a debate...

Updated Dec 18, 2020 Workers At These Companies Say They’re Still Not Safe From COVID-19 Forty percent of workers at fast-food outlets and big-box stores say social distancing isn’t possible. About a quarter say customers aren’t wearing masks either. By Emily Peck Illustration: Damon Dahlen/HuffPost; Photos: Getty Just last week, as Drew Board was about to load a couple’s car with groceries at the Walmart where he works in Albemarle, North Carolina, he approached the passeng...

Only a third of workers at the largest service industry employers in Virginia have access to paid sick leave, according to a report by researchers at Harvard’s Malcolm Wiener Center for Social Policy and the University of California San Francisco. Advocacy groups, who hope the finding will propel the General Assembly to pass long-debated paid time off legislation, called the report particularly notable because it contradicts arguments made by business groups, who have told lawmakers most l...