What if paid sick leave was mandated throughout the economy by some sort of nationwide binding rule? Do you think that might work better than exhortation?
If you think American employers are about to engage in altruistic burden sharing or accept temporary reductions in revenue based on their enlightened self interest as members of society or b/c the surgeon general said ‘please,’ you need only look in my mentions to be disabused.
To be clear, public health professionals are telling us we need this, it needs to happen, and it won’t without a law, but congress should be thinking about how to ease the burdens on employers too, ofc—maybe a bridge loan program.
