RESEARCH BRIEF | OCTOBER 2023 - Most Hourly Workers at Large Service Sector Firms Still Lack Paid Sick Leave

Workers are the most likely to receive paid sick leave, with with paid sick leave are more likely to stay home to 95 percent of the highest income quartile reporting recover when sick and also to be able to care for sick paid sick leave benefits.5 In contrast, only 58 percent family members and secure important preventative of the lowest income quartile has access to paid sick health care.1, 2 Bey. [...] Pandemic-era increases in paid sick leave generally Access to Paid Sick Leave in the correspond with pre-pandemic paid sick leave access. [...] This deep deficit persists in PSL, while workers at firms who provided the most three years after the start of the global COVID-19 paid sick leave before the pandemic were the most pandemic that shocked the world economy, including likely to report augmented paid sick leave during the the service sector, and highlighted the importance pandemic (36 percent). [...] While 16 percent of workers reported America’s largest firms were left out.7 Nevertheless, expansions in paid sick leave in the spring of 2020, we find that at the height of the pandemic, in the that share had declined to just 6 percent by the fall spring of 2020, service sector workers’ access to paid of 2020. [...] Paid Sick Leave Access by Firm Most Hourly Workers at Large Service Sector Firms Still Lack Paid Sick Leave 4 Most Hourly Workers at Large Service Sector Firms Still Lack Paid Sick Leave 5 Figure 5 shows firm-level exposure to paid sick leave Firms located in areas both with and without paid laws, with column height indicating the percentage sick leave mandates provide evidence that even those of.