Health, Doctors and Common Sense

WASHINGTON – The Obama administration is backing legislation to provide mandatory paid sick leave for more than 30 million additional workers, who are some of the nation's lowest-paid employees.

The Healthy Families Act, sponsored by Sen. Christopher Dodd and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, both Democrats from Connecticut, would require companies with 15 or more employees to provide one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked or up to seven sick days a year for a full-time worker.

Most legislative action has come at the state and municipal level. In recent years, California, Ohio, Maine and New Jersey have considered bills requiring paid sick leave. San Francisco and Washington, D.C., have passed laws that require it for private-sector employees.

– McClatchy Newspapers

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