Will the COVID-19 pandemic change our perception on employees staying home when they are sick?
When employees are allowed to return to the office, will this pandemic change the way businesses approach sick time and the work while sick culture that some argue exists in the country? Denver7 went 360 to listen to multiple perspectives on the topic.
By: Meghan Lopez
and last updated 2021-02-23 20:08:35-05
DENVER â For nearly a year, Coloradans have been coping with a new reality of life in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic. Thousands have died in the state after contracting the virus and many others have been hospitalized or sickened.
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A Helena lawmaker is hoping the third time s the charm for a proposal to provide paid family leave insurance.
Rep. Moffie Funk, a Democrat, is carrying House Bill 228. It would create the Montana Family and Medical Leave Insurance program, which would be funded by equal contributions from workers and employers.
From that pot of money, people needing leave for the birth, adoption or fostering of a child, to care for a family member with a serious medical condition, or recover from their own medical issue, could receive full or partial wages while away from their job. We have all either experienced ourselves or know someone who has experienced a serious illness or who has had to help a sick or aging family member or, more happily, welcoming a new family member, Funk told the House Business and Labor Committee on Wednesday. These can be extremely stressful times and families should not have to struggle to make ends meet, or keep their job while facing these challenges.
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Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today announced a proposal to establish the New York State Cares + Baby2Baby Diaper Bank as part of the 2021 Women s Agenda. Through a partnership with Baby2Baby, a national nonprofit that provides basic essentials for children under the age of 18, 20 million donated diapers will be made available to New York s Emergency Feeding Programs for distribution to food banks throughout the state at no cost to New York families. COVID-19 has piled challenge after challenge onto hardworking New York families, including the ability to afford the products they need to care for their children,
Governor Cuomo said. Even before the pandemic, an astonishing one in three families struggled to cover the cost of diapers, and the pandemic has only exacerbated this issue. As we begin laying the groundwork to rebuild in a post-COVID world we must find ways to level the playing field and reduce the burdens this virus has placed on families