Why you should care about paid sick leave

From The Washington Post:

Serving While Sick

If you’re about to eat in a restaurant, you should read this first.

Or then again, maybe you’d rather not.

A report being released at a Congressional hearing later this morning by the D.C.-based Restaurant Opportunities Centers United (“a national restaurant workers’ organization, comprised of restaurant worker organizations across the country,” according to its Web site) says, among other key findings from its survey of more than 4,000 restaurant workers nationwide, that “nearly 90% of workers said they did not receive paid sick days. As a result, two thirds of respondents said they had worked while sick in the previous year, preparing, cooking and serving food.”

Ick.

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