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Working While Sick

By tovarichpeter   Follow   Sat, 4 Aug 2012, 5:58pm   302 views   3 comments
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http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/working-while-sick.html?ref=opinion

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1. elliemae Follow Befriend (25) 416 threads 7,009 comments Saint George, UT elliemae's website

   1   8:06pm Sat 4 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   People shouldn't work when they're sick, especially if they're contagious. It sucks when you have to work - no sick leave available - and then you infect everyone around you.

2. KILLERJANE Follow Befriend (3) 12 threads 600 comments

   2   8:12pm Sat 4 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   Doctors who are affordable and available are hard to come by on the weekends. Weekends are when most hard working people can get to a doctor. That is a real problem for decades.

3. jhall Follow Befriend (3) 23 threads 130 comments Minneapolis, MN

   3   8:41am Sun 5 Aug 2012   Share   Quote   Permalink   Like   Dislike   From the story: The best way to address this workplace and public health problem is with a national law requiring businesses to provide paid sick leave — a normal benefit for workers in at least 145 countries. Me: There outta be a law. And this goes directly to the "let the market take care of it" argument. People don't get paid time off when they're sick. They make themselves sicker, infect the rest of us, lose their jobs when they get really ill. We can argue that it will cost businesses to pay for those sick days, but we're all paying for the lack of those days...