He recalled her words: "Son, I want you to have guaranteed sick pay and a pension".
There is popular momentum behind the idea of guaranteed sick days, in particular; along with Massachusetts, California, Connecticut, and a number of cities have now enacted such laws.
An earlier version said Sports Direct would have to make clear that it did not guarantee sick pay or holiday pay to zero-hours workers.
In November, Massachusetts voters passed a ballot measure that allows workers to earn up to forty hours of guaranteed sick leave a year; they can use it to stay home when a child is sick, or when they themselves are.
The economic downturn made the expansion of family leave — or, for that matter, guaranteed sick days — look much too cuddly, and congressional Republicans tended to want nothing to do with it.
Of the top 15 most competitive countries, only the U.S. offers no guaranteed sick leave.
Jayaraman said that groups like the IFA and the more powerful National Restaurant Association spend millions fighting against increases in minimum wage, guaranteed sick days, and health benefits for employees.
Concern about the lack of paid sick leave was heightened during the 2009 H1N1 influenza outbreak when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommended that workers remain at home if they were sick with flu-like symptoms to control the spread of infection [ 4], and emergency legislation guaranteeing temporary sick leave was introduced in the House of Representatives [ 5].
Now let's work to minimize those outbreaks by guaranteeing paid sick days through the Healthy Families Act.
Our pre-election poll found that registered voters were more than three times as likely to vote for candidates who favored increasing the minimum wage, increasing student aid, securing health care for all regardless of employment status, and guaranteeing paid sick days for all workers.
