Mandated Sick Leave

Sick leave that a company is legally required to provide to employees. Governments may mandate sick leave in order to protect workers from termination when they are ill. Proponents of mandated sick leave argue that this helps workers keep their jobs when they can least afford to lose them. Critics maintain that mandated sick leave represents an unsustainable cost for businesses.

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When they studied reforms to Germany's sick pay system that reduced mandated sick leave pay, they found that these reductions decreased noncontagious absenteeism, but increased the infectious disease rate (attributable to contagious presenteeism).

My coworkers are making me sick

"Additionally, we are concerned for small business and the cumulative effect that a host of existing and proposed employment-related directives, such as mandated sick leave ...

Group pushing to up state minimum wage

The Planning for 2009 H1N1 Influenza: A Preparedness Guide for Small Business provides far greater support to small businesses and their employees than federally passed mandated sick leave policies.

H1N1 paid sick leave legislation introduced

Mandated sick leave: Nearly every Oregon employer must provide sick leave to all employees, including seasonal, part-time and temporary workers, and owners of the business who also work as employees.

With the new year comes new rules for employers

The unconstrained vision has brought Eugene a ban on plastic bags, mandated sick leave and climate change legislation.

Political segregation argues for two Eugenes

Clark said that, because he believes the Legislature is likely to adopt a statewide mandated sick leave policy next year, a "costly" legal fight with the county "is completely unnecessary."

City passes sick leave law

Most of the commissioners are ideologically opposed the idea of mandated sick leave to begin with, and are especially incensed by the idea that Eugene would pass a law affecting businesses on their turf.