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From Center for Law and Social Policy:
When you work hard, you should be able to care for yourself and your family.
Yet about half of the private sector workers in the United States do not have paid sick days.
Paid sick days for restaurant and hospitality workers are particularly important.
Typically, they are low-paid workers, so their employers' refusal to provide paid sick days makes it financially untenable to take time off.
And it's a public health issue as well: restaurant and hospitality workers who come to work with a cold or other communicable illness---because they need a day's wages---may make their patrons sick.
A paid sick days law has already been enacted in San Francisco by voter referendum.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the mean hourly earnings of full-time waiters and waitresses are the lowest of 427 ranked occupations. Also among the 25 lowest-ranked occupations are food preparers, bartenders, and cooks.
While these wages do not include possible income from tips, full-time work at these wages leaves these workers below poverty for a family of four.
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Posted on February 14, 2007 09:45 PM
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