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Senator Kamala Harris talks about the importance of sick leave during the COVID-19 pandemic. A 2009 analysis from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) found that around 39 percent of American workers in the private sector do not have paid sick leave. [1] Around 79 percent of workers in low-wage industries do not have paid sick time. [2]
The Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 (FMLA) is a United States labor law requiring covered employers to provide employees with job-protected, unpaid leave for qualified medical and family reasons. [1] The FMLA was a major part of President Bill Clinton's first-term domestic
In the first year of the program's passage, only 138,000 people applied for benefits. This was less than half of California's estimate for number of benefit recipients, 300,000. Of those claims, 88% were for bonding with a new child while 12% were for caring for an ill family member.
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"You need to use organizations that have trusted relationships with these families," Jacqueline Martinez told the Associated Press.
On February 23, Newsom signed the $7.6 billion Golden State Stimulus bill which will provide $600 stimulus checks to qualifying residents, $2 billion in grants for small businesses, as well as millions in aid for food banks, low-income community college students, and agricultural workers who may have been exposed to COVID-19.
The federal government passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA), which went into effect on April 1, 2020. FFCRA reimbursed private employers with fewer than 500 employees with tax credits for the cost of providing paid sick leave and expanded family and medical leave for special reasons related to COVID-19.