New Hampshire House Again Takes Up Guaranteed Paid Sick Leave For Workers

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Submitted by Doug Cunningham on November 23, 2009 - 5:23pm
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New Hampshire is the latest state to take up mandatory paid sick leave legislation. Jesse Russell reports:

New Hampshire’s’ House Labor, Industrial, and Rehabilitative Services Committee will vote for a second time today on the passage of a bill that would make paid sick leave mandatory in the state. If the bill is recommended for passage by the committee it will still need to make it through the House, Senate, and the Governor’s desk. The proposal requires three paid sick days are provided for workers in companies of 15 or more employees. Unpaid sick leave days wouldn’t be paid out at the end of each year and couldn’t be transferred to the next year. The push in New Hampshire follows a national trend of mandatory sick day proposals in the shadow of the spread of H1N1. A proposal by California Congressman George Miller would provide five paid sick days to workers. To date 15 states have proposed mandatory sick day laws. The United States remains the only developed nation in the World to not have mandatory sick leave.