Many health-care workers don't get new paid sick leave, because of 'broad' exemption for providers,
A government watchdog has said the Labor Department “significantly broadened” an exemption allowing millions of health-care providers to avoid offering enhanced paid leave as part of the law Congress passed in March to help workers be able to take off if they get sick during the coronavirus pandemic.
Congress passed the Families First Coronavirus Response Act “to ensure American workers would not be forced to choose between their paychecks and the public health measures needed to combat the virus,” the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) said in a report out Tuesday.
That paid-leave law requires employers to provide two weeks of paid sick leave to employees who are unable to work because of the coronavirus, but it exempts health-care providers on the front lines of fighting the virus, as well as companies with more than 500 employees.
But the OIG report noted that the move by the Labor Department to exempt a larger group of health-care providers from having to abide by the strengthened paid-leave law left far more than the agency’s estimate of 9 million health-care workers without a guarantee of paid sick leave.
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So do they want the ill taking care of the ill?
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