Labor Wages and Paid Sick Days

  Just while browsing around the net, I ran into these interesting stats from the magazine Dollars & Sense, which also has many more interesting stories and stats for those of you who care about labor rights and other issues.

    Elise Gould tells us that only 57 percent of private industry workers have paid sick days while 43 percent have none at all. The funny thing is that the less that you earn as an hourly worker, the less chances are that you have paid sick days.  See the    CHART.

Workers at the bottom of the wage scale, those making less than $7.38 an hour, are five times less likely to have sick days than workers at the top of the scale, those making greater than $29.47 an hour. As the figure reveals, only 16% of low-wage workers have access to paid sick days, versus 79% of high-wage workers.

  If you're alive and breathing and you happen to be one of those workers in the chart, then you already know that your workers rights have been turning to shit over the past few decades. Paid sick days should be available to all workers on an equal basis based on your time of employment, not your wage rate.

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