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This is not true and highly depends on employer.
by andreygrehov 7y ago
This is not true and highly depends on employer.
- komali2 7y agohttps://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/29/facts-about-american-workers/ https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/08/29/facts-about... 71% of all nonfarm payroll employees, or, 107.8 million people are in the service sector. Chop out "professional and business services" and "education and health services," industries you could reasonably assume people have sick days in, and you have 43mil people who it is reasonable to assume can't take a sick day. https://www.popsci.com/flu-season-paid-sick-leave/ https://www.popsci.com/flu-season-paid-sick-leave/
- miguelmota 7y agoA large portion of jobs in US are service jobs which are easily replaceable by other people, and service jobs are low paying so losing a days work can be financially catastrophic for the person.
- unlinked_dll 7y agoAround half of all workers in the US are paid hourly. "Sick day" means "no pay" for most of them. edit: according to most recent data [0] it's actually 58.5% of all workers are hourly. Do they get paid sick leave? [0] https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2018/home.htm https://www.bls.gov/opub/reports/minimum-wage/2018/home.htm
- andreygrehov 7y agoSure, but if you're paid hourly, isn't "sick day/no pay" true for pretty much any country in the world?