3 reasons mandatory paid sick days are a good idea

March 6, 2012 by Christian Schappel

One organization is trying to sell employers in New York City on the idea of mandatory paid sick days for workers. Its reasoning?

Requiring companies to give employees access to paid sick days would:

1. Improve employees’ health
2. Decrease the likelihood that employees will delay medical care for themselves or their family members, and
3. Reduce the number of visits to hospital emergency rooms, which would reduce healthcare costs by $35.5 million.

Those are the assertions of the Institute for Women's Policy Research (IWRP).

Using data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s 2009-2010 National Health Interview Survey, the IWRP has estimated the size of the impact that access to paid sick days would have in New York City. 

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