I googled the law for several supposedly “progressive” state:
MA and OR provide earned sick leave, of 1 hour leave pre 30 hour worked. basically, one day off per month worked in the current year. However the law requires no more than 40 hour of leave per year for whatever reason?!
NY guarantees 40 - 56hr of sick leave for most employees
Here’s the fun part: you only get that if you work somewhere that obeys labor laws! Many (most?) restaurants pretend like they don’t exist at all. I’ve worked at a place that would occasionally (3 times in the year and a half I worked there) fire a chef just after the pay-cycle without saying a word, so the chef works the next 2 weeks up until payday, asks “where’s my paycheck” and the boss says “you don’t get one you were fired last week”.
On a chef’s salary, that has potential to put them and their family on the streets.
I googled the law for several supposedly “progressive” state:
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Here’s the fun part: you only get that if you work somewhere that obeys labor laws! Many (most?) restaurants pretend like they don’t exist at all. I’ve worked at a place that would occasionally (3 times in the year and a half I worked there) fire a chef just after the pay-cycle without saying a word, so the chef works the next 2 weeks up until payday, asks “where’s my paycheck” and the boss says “you don’t get one you were fired last week”.
On a chef’s salary, that has potential to put them and their family on the streets.
The fun part is also with “at-will” employment (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/At-will_employment), which is effective for most employment in the U.S.
You can have as much TPO and sick day as you want, yet nothing stops your employer firing you because you used your TPO or sick day.
So basically they are meaningless…