What we paid sick leave in the United States since the outbreak of H1N1 Learned

The last time the pandemic, the US consulting work has experienced Americans was similar to embassy officials use the house today to be together. Similar to COVID-19 burst today, the 2009 H1N1 pandemic issues set out in inequality in the United States, including the differences in paid sick leave. In 2009, the federal government has not provided a sick pay policy, and it is still today, the workers will force the impossible choice between the financial health and personal. But there are important lessons we can learn from the past, Porter says Keshia Pollack, director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health Institute for Health and Social Policy. “We know that the workers who are most in need are less likely to have access to sick leave,” says Pollack Porter TIME and retro relationship. “It ‘s shocking low-income workers, black workers, people working in small businesses not only have access tend to have these types of benefits.” In 2009, the federal government has a sick pay policy of emergency to ask for help included, given the spread of H1N1. Although in the end, the federal government not to deploy the emergency measure, many states have started one of them hired to investigate so that researchers their impact. Not surprisingly, the flu-like illness rates declined significantly in countries that have implemented a policy of paid sick leave compared to countries that have not. But even with access to sick leave, the US workers could not show up for work in the event of illness due to cultural expectations. “We live in a society in the work of our material well-being is important, a fundamental part of our identity, our creativity,” says Debra Lerner, director of Tufts Medical Center Health Program, work and productivity. As in 2009, today’s employers are struggling with an economy influx, and the burden of sick leave paid in the United States often evident that employers, resulting in additional financial pressure, a problem that the world exists in a matter of just hanging around countries. “Whether it’s working through, whether through state plans that health is important, work is important,” says Lerner. “If we sit back and look at how to create a political barrier so that healthy people and help maintain jobs to be healthy and productive, so we learned nothing.”
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