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Workers in three states are now entitled to paid sick leave for the first time. In Alaska, most workers are now entitled to at least 40 hours of paid sick leave a year. Larger employers in the state ...

In the absence of a federal law, U.S. workers rely on a patchwork of state laws or their private-sector employer for sick leave coverage.

The U.S. is one of few developed nations without federal laws that provide workers paid time off, and just over a dozen states have their own laws to offer paid sick leave. But last week, Americans in ...

It’s not easy to be sick in America. It’s even tougher to be sick in certain parts of America. Some 28 million workers in 35 states don’t have access to paid sick leave. Changing that difficult ...

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