Healthy Families Act supporters work for paid sick leave
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To some, a measure before Congress that would require companies with 15 or more employees to provide workers with seven days of paid sick leave per year is a matter of equity for working people. To others, it’s another example of government interference in business.
Advocate Jean Warner, with the Oklahoma Women’s Network, said Tuesday that the Healthy Families Act would provide a bit of a safety net for lower-paid workers, many of them women at the margins of society trying to keep a valued job when they fall ill.
“We know that many women who are in the work force are one automobile breakdown or one kid-with-the-mumps away from losing their job,” Warner said. “If they don’t have family-leave rights or sick-leave rights, they’re just hanging on the edge of holding onto a job.”
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