Paid Sick Leave Is Finally Becoming a Reality. Patty Murray Wishes It Hadn't Taken a Pandemic to Get It There
glamour.comThe first time that Senator Patty Murray (D-Wash.) introduced a federal paid sick leave bill was in 2004. The most recent time she did was .For 16 years, Murray has her fellow lawmakers to consider a modest proposal—that workers in America deserve some period of paid sick leave, not just because it’s humane and reasonable, but because we’re all safer if people have it.“It is unacceptable that for 43 million of our nation’s workers, catching the flu or needing to care for a sick family member means losing a day of pay, or even losing a job,” Murray said three years ago and after more than a decade of fighting for one of her signature issues.Of course we know how this ends—we don’t have a federal paid leave program, and we’re in the middle of.
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