As the Democratic party pushes hard for a federal paid sick leave policy, a study from the Society for Human Resource Management found that, among companies with 50-plus employees, only about half offer paid sick days to their fulltime workers.
Additionally, only about a quarter to a third offer any paid time off to part-time workers.
The data was extracted from SHRM's 2014 survey of employers, which gathered input from more than 1,000 organizations with 50 or more employees. The Families and Work Institute partnered in the research.
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Dan Cook
Dan Cook is a journalist and communications consultant based in Portland, OR. During his journalism career he has been a reporter and editor for a variety of media companies, including American Lawyer Media, BusinessWeek, Newhouse Newspapers, Knight-Ridder, Time Inc., and Reuters. He specializes in health care and insurance related coverage for BenefitsPRO.
