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	"author_name": "Progressive Mass ",
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	"title": "Workers Deserve Emergency Paid Sick Time",
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	"description": "It’s simple: no worker should be forced to choose between their health and their livelihood. Low-wage workers are our first line of defense against COVID-19, but they are feeling the greatest economic impact of the outbreak. Healthcare and long-term care workers, janitorial workers, food service workers, child care workers, municipal workers, adjunct faculty, gig workers, and others on the front lines are critical to supporting our communities during the OVID-19 outbreak. But many of these front-line workers are struggling economically and lack basic economic protections including adequate paid sick time. Massachusetts’s 2014 earned sick time law does not provide enough hours to meet the scale of the crisis, and the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) has big coverage gaps that leave millions of front-line workers without paid sick time. Massachusetts needs to pass Emergency Paid Sick Time legislation to ensure that all workers can take paid sick time during this crisis. SD.2918 (Lewis) &amp;amp; HD.5039 (Donato): An Act relative to emergency paid sick time The bill would provide ten additional work-days (80 hours) of job-protected paid sick time for immediate use during the COVID-19 outbreak for all workers not covered by recently passed federal legislation Workers taking Emergency Paid Sick Time would be paid by their employers at their regular rate of pay, up to a maximum of $850/week. Employers would then be fully reimbursed by the state. Emergency Paid Sick Time would be available, with no waiting period, for a worker to care for themselves or a family member/domestic partner/household member if they or said love one is diagnosed with COVID-19, experiencing COVID-19 symptoms and awaiting a diagnosis, quarantined or self-quarantined, or reasonably believes their health is at risk.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/letters/workers-deserve-emergency-paid-sick-time"
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