Stay home or work sick? Omicron poses a conundrum
Millions of workers whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.
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Millions of workers whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.
As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of...
The Shift Project, which has been surveying workers since 2017 through targeted social media advertisements, found 49% of service workers reported having paid sick leave in the fall of 2021. That figure was at 48% in the years before the pandemic.
As the raging omicron variant of COVID-19 infects workers across the nation, millions of those whose jobs don’t provide paid sick days are having to choose between their health and their paycheck.
Fast-food companies fare worst at staff vaccination rates, compared to retail and service firms.