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i
f you’re a parent, then you know the drill: you wake
up to a feverish child on a work day and your first
thought is what
you’ll do about
work that day
the stands, city council members in Eugene will have
voted on a similar sick leave proposal.
It’s a good start. But in our opinion, it’s not enough.
America’s work-family policy needs a makeover.
Paid sick time is one step towards the kind of
if you stay
The Time
Is Now
home, or how
and family. It is a type of “workplace flexibility” that
miserable your
makes it possible for parents to provide and care for
child will be if
their families, without sacrificing one or the other. It
you send her to
makes it possible for parents to care for a sick child the
school anyway
way they want to and should: at home, for as long as the
(not to mention
child needs it. With paid sick time, pregnant women can
that you’ll
get to their prenatal appointments and take their young
be spreading
kids in for well child visits and vaccines. Without paid
contagion at
or protected sick time, missing work for these important
your school
Paid Sick Leave:
workplaces that t