Should Every Worker Have Paid Sick Leave? The Ethics of Employee Benefits and Rights
Ethical Inquiry is a monthly series that examines ethical questions, highlighting a broad array of opinion from journalism, academia and advocacy organizations. Our intent is to illuminate and explore the complexity of some of the most vexing ethical questions of our time.
November 2011
“The more restrictive the government is in how businesses can develop their benefits programs, the less flexible business owners can be. If it s paid sick leave, you re paying somebody who s not going to be there and you have to pay somebody to replace them. That has the potential to affect the bottom line for a lot of small businesses.” Molly Brogan, spokeswoman for the National Small Business Association
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email At the Women’s Bureau, a Renewed Focus on Passing Paid Leave and LGBTQ+ Inclusivity
Wendy Chun-Hoon, the new director of the Women’s Bureau at the Department of Labor, speaks with The 19th about what needs to inform policies during a perilous time for women in the workplace.
Several years ago, when Wendy Chun-Hoon was working to pass paid sick and family leave policies in states across the country, she was suddenly struck with a realization that her own family wouldn’t be able to access the benefit.
The Supreme Court had not yet ruled on marriage equality that ruling came in 2015 and Chun-Hoon and her wife, Emily, couldn’t take time off work to help the other heal from childbirth or bond with a new child. This was because of the way families were defined in policy often written to just include a married spouse of a different sex, a parent and a child. Even since the ruling, which recognized same-sex marriage, families
Originally published on March 15, 2021 8:45 pm
When Tanner Fry’s youngest son was born two years ago, Fry appreciated the time he got to spend with the baby, so much that the middle-of-the-night diaper changes didn’t bother him.
“To be able to have the luxury to get up at 2 a.m., not having to worry about being up at 5 a.m. and go to work, made it that much easier to handle,” said the 42-year-old city employee. Fry works on a crew that resurfaces roads and helps fix water main breaks for City, Water Light and Power.
City employees can take up to 12 weeks of unpaid leave under the federal Family Medical Leave Act after the birth or adoption of a child, and use as much accrued sick or vacation time as they have to get paid during that time.
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