By Jonathan Heller, Ph.D and
Rajiv Bhatia, MD, MPH
A new study released this afternoon finds that 70% of restaurant workers must choose between staying home when sick or getting a pay check, because they don’t have paid sick days. Almost 40 percent of California’s workforce—more than 5 million workers—do not have the right to take paid time off from work when they are sick. For the first time, researchers have decided to take a close look at the health costs and consequences of the state’s sick day gap.
Human Impact Partners and researchers at the San Francisco Department of Public Health jointly released the study - a Health Impact Assessment - of proposed[...]