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If you're sick with something that's non-transmissible, then it's on you to decide if you want to go to work or not.
If you're sick with something contagious, then I don't care who you are, you're a horrible excuse for a human being if you go to work.
Yeah, how dare people who are poor keep working to make sure they don't end up homeless. Damned poor assholes expecting the world to cater to them!
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US Federal law does not require sick leave.
Some people need the money.
USA is third world country with the power of a first world country
"Greatest country in the world"
" . . . in which to be an Oligarch."
I'd say south Korea has us beat rn. But we won't back down, we'll keep fighting for that gold.
As someone that has to go into work sick all the time, God I wish sick pay was required. I wanna be a decent person and try not to get people sick. But at the same time I live paycheck to paycheck and if I miss too much work oops now I'm fucked.
Get better federal laws then.
Sorry but I'm not missing rent, going further into debt, or becoming homeless because I'm sick. My landlord doesn't give a shit if I'm sick and neither does the electric company or my car insurance company. I wanna be a decent person and not get other people sick, but I'm not gonna risk losing everything because I can't work. It's the system that's fucked, not the people. They would love to stay home but they can't.
I hate to be the one to say it, but it is the people. They're not willing to band together to fix the system. They (we) can have+eat our cake, but they just can't fucking agree, for not even a day.
One thing you always have to keep in mind is, that depending on where you work someone missing means that all your coworkers have to work more to compensate. One example would be if you work on a farm. The animals don't care if you're sick. They are hungry. Depending in the time of the year and how many people work there someone being home means that the rest has to compensate you which results in a lot of stress and possibly more mistakes. The work doesn't go away just because you go home. Sometimes stuff has to be done right now.
However, if you are allowed sickdays and don't work in an industry where someone missing means extra work for everyone, you're right.