In the world’s only wealthy country that does not guarantee paid sick leave, just working through it — even for those who could take paid time off — is the norm. From The New York Times.
Over 100 other countries guarantee some form of paid sick leave. In the United States, a survey of 3,600 hourly workers this spring found that two-thirds of those who had been sick with COVID-19 or other illnesses went to work while sick, according to the Shift Project at Harvard, a research project on work scheduling. Many of them cited fear of getting in trouble with their managers, or financial pressures.
“There is this culture that everyone around you is working, so you feel obliged to go along with it,” Fitzgerald said. “The most important value in America seems to be how much money is in your bank account, and I think that’s what drives so much of working through sickness.” “You’d go to the doctor and you’d get a note and they’d be like, ‘You can take off three days,’” Fitzgerald said. “It would be very much like ‘them’s the rules, we gotta obey them.’”
James Carr, 38, a data scientist, who got COVID-19 in February and worked through it, remembered being chided for trying to use his sick days at a previous job because of a looming deadline. A.Z. Madonna, 28, a music journalist, got COVID-19 recently, and couldn’t silence the voice in her head asking why she wasn’t getting anything done.
But even as some employers are encouraging workers to use their time off, many others are dropping benefits introduced during the pandemic. This spring, Amazon announced a return to its pre-pandemic sick leave. Walmart stopped offering emergency paid leave for most of its workers with COVID-19 at the end of March, instead asking employees to use their regular bank of paid time off and sick days.
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