The number of states passing laws requiring employers to provide paid sick leave increased from zero to 12 between 2009 and 2020, but here’s a catch.
While a growing number of states now require employers to provide paid sick leave, even more states without paid sick-leave laws have passed laws barring local governments from enacting their own such requirements, a new study says.
This trend is part of a “culture of state preemption” over the past decade across subject areas, Pomeranz said, as well as a response to local governments passing laws that state governments don’t like. Paid sick leave was available to 77% of the private workforce in March 2021, according to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics data available, but only 59% of workers in service occupations and 33% of the lowest-earning 10% of workers had access.
For the two weeks ending Jan. 10, working-age Americans making less than $25,000 a year were 3.5 times as likely to say they’d missed a whole week of work primarily because they got sick with COVID-19 or had to care for someone else with symptoms, according to an analysis published by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute.
And in states that do require either public or private employers to provide paid sick leave, there’s still variation based on whether both public and private employers are covered, or there are exclusions based on employer size or certain vocations, Pomeranz said.
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