Legislation passed by the House doesn't actually guarantee paid sick leave to most American workers

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Friday night celebrated the coronavirus legislation that passed early Saturday as providing paid sick leave to American workers affected by the pandemic.

She neglected to mention the fine print.

In fact, the bill guarantees sick leave only to about 20 percent of workers. Big employers like McDonald’s and Amazon are not required to provide any paid sick leave, while companies with fewer than 50 employees can seek hardship exemptions from the Trump administration.

....The White House and congressional Republicans, who insisted on the exemptions as the price of bipartisan support for the legislation, bear the primary responsibility for the indefensible decision to prioritize corporate profits in the midst of a public health emergency.

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/opinion/coronavirus-pelosi-sick-leave.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage

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1. The usual suspects.

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2. Both Amazon and McDonald's have expanded their sick leave policies recently.

Many others have too with CV19.

Apparently, the Bill assumes most large companies will do something similar without needing to be reimbursed by Federal Government, as might be case with small businesses.

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3. I'm sure the ever generous Walmart will be expanding their already generous benefits.

While companies with less than 50 employees can seek hardship exemptions from the Trump administration.

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4. If you take time to look it up, WalMart has already expanded sick leave.

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5. Yeah, and the Walmart Associates in Critical Need Trust has waived a requirement for eligibility.

So now employees can apply for assistance even if they have worked there for less than a year. That's nice.

Of course the Trust doesn't have a very good track record for actually employees. Maybe that's because it doesn't have much of the Walton's 200 billion dollars and instead relies on funding from the associates themselves.

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6. Apparently, you didn't look very hard because that is not their CV sick leave policy.

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7. Sure. It's super generous.

Two weeks @ whatever they were making...11? 12? bucks an hour. What if an employee has to stay home to take care of a loved one with the virus? Tough shit.

Meanwhile, the Walton family makes 4 million dollars an hour. This is no time to defend the Walton monopoly.