Worker advocates across the country have long-pressured employers as well as local and state governments to guarantee paid sick leave to employees, pointing out that those without it will often jeopardize the health and safety of colleagues and customers by coming to work sick.
But workers who acquire the right to take paid time off to recover from an illness are often hesitant to exercise that right, studies show.
A recent poll conducted by NPR, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Harvard T.C. Chan School of Public Health shows that a majority of working adults say they go to work when they have a cold or the flu.
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