Daily Document Update: HR Compliance Library, ¶45,967, Another try: the Healthy Families Act is reintroduced

摘要

On March 14, Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.) and Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) reintroduced theHealthy Families Act, a bill that would permit workers to earn paid sick leave to use when they are ill, to carefor a sick family member, to obtain preventive care, or to address the impacts of domestic violence, stalking, orsexual assault.The bill’s sponsors pointed to studies showing that paid sick leave can reduce the spread of contagious diseaseslike the flu, and a national paid sick days policy would reduce emergency room visits by 1.3 million annually,saving $1.1 billion a year.