{"id":39990,"date":"2009-11-11T10:09:50","date_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"19cb95c3-e3f0-413b-8cc1-80c9d426155e"},"modified":"2009-11-11T10:09:50","modified_gmt":"2009-11-11T15:09:50","slug":"lawmakers-call-for-emergency-sick-leave-requirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/39990","title":{"rendered":"Lawmakers Call For Emergency Sick-Leave Requirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are calling for\u00a0new legislation that would require\u00a0businesses to\u00a0provide\u00a0paid emergency sick-leave\u00a0because of\u00a0the swine flu pandemic.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/features\/health\/la-na-flu11-2009nov11,0,4904843.story\" >The Los Angeles Times<\/a> reports: &#8220;Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), chairing a health subcommittee hearing Tuesday, said that requiring businesses with 15 or more employees to offer seven paid days off a year would end a dangerous choice &#8216;between staying healthy and making ends meet.'&#8221;\u00a0Some conservative lawmakers\u00a0argue, though, &#8220;that Democrats are using a public health crisis as momentum for faulty legislation that would harm businesses by inviting abuse by workers. &#8230; There currently is no requirement for businesses of any size to provide paid sick leave&#8221; (Markman, 11\/11).<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/khn\/fulltext\/~4\/-wcvCWNgPIk\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lawmakers are calling for\u00a0new legislation that would require\u00a0businesses to\u00a0provide\u00a0paid emergency sick-leave\u00a0because of\u00a0the swine flu pandemic.\u00a0The Los Angeles Times reports: &#8220;Sen. Christopher J. Dodd (D-Conn.), chairing a health subcommittee hearing Tuesday, said that requiring businesses with 15 or more employees to offer seven paid days off a year would end a dangerous choice &#8216;between staying healthy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}