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New study says paid sick days legislation wouldn't hurt local business
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New study says paid sick days legislation wouldn't hurt local business
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| Evan Lopez |
In March, we told you about how 46 percent of Pennsylvania workers don't have paid sick time — and how there were two bills, one in the state House and another in City Council, that sought to change this. Seven months later, neither HB 1830 or Philly's "Promoting Healthy Families Workplaces" bill have been signed into law. The Drum Major Institute for Public Policy just released a related study showing that two out of five Philly workers — or 210,000 people — don't have paid sick days, including thousands who care for the elderly and children, or handle food.
The study advocates for legislation to be passed, noting that a recently enacted law in San Francisco that guarantees paid sick days for all working people did not have a negative effect on business; in fact, job growth improved compared to surrounding counties without such a law:
Since the ordinance was implemented in 2007, job growth in San Francisco (up 3.5 percent since the first half of 2006) has consistently been higher than in neighboring counties (down 3.4 percent over the same period) that do not guarantee paid sick time, despite the recession.
The number of new large and small business establishments in San Francisco has also outpaced the surrounding counties since the paid sick time ordinance was implemented.
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A much larger proportion of Philadelphia's workforce is in health care and education — sectors in which a greater percentage of employers already provide paid sick time — than in San Francisco. This does not detract from the urgent need to guarantee that all 210,000 working Philadelphians without paid sick time receive it: it does indicate that if paid sick leave harmed job growth, the effects would be magnified in San Francisco. Yet even with a larger proportion of the workforce affected, San Francisco's paid sick leave ordinance was found to have no negative impact on business.
You can check out the rest of the study here.
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