Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska – voted to pass new ballot measures that will bring paid sick leave requirements to their ...

Sick Leave is defined as time off from scheduled work: necessitated by an illness or injury that causes a Professional Staff Member to be unable to perform his or her regular job duties; to attend a ...

They may question whether they are truly sick enough to take the day off or worry that missing work will reflect poorly on them. “First, there is a worry about the work they are going to miss ...

Taking necessary time off from work goes against some of the ... the future of their jobs are more likely to go ahead and work sick." It's not clear that this trend will stick, or that some ...

Rishi Sunak told the BBC's Laura Kuenssberg that while the number of people who are off work sick has tripled, he questioned what that statistic actually means. "Now do I think our country is ...

There is no federal law that entitles workers to paid time off, and fewer than 20 states now have enacted paid sick time laws ...

Democratic Councilman Shaun Abreu introduced a bill that updates the Earned Safe and Sick Time Act. The original act allows employees to take off to take care of themselves or family members, but the ...

Missouri voters passed Proposition A, which will raise the state’s minimum wage and mandate sick leave for all employees. The ...

Each teacher who took sick leave reported an average of eight days off work last year. It equates to almost 13,700 teachers calling in sick on any given day during the 190-day school year.

The coronavirus pandemic underscored the importance of paid sick leave, a benefit to help workers and their families when ...