Press from Paid Sick Days Campaign in NYC

Recent Media Coverage of the New York City Paid Sick Time Act

• 2013 Politics Revive Paid Sick Leave, Chris Bragg, City & State NY (Feb. 17, 2012)
• Offering Paid Sick Time Could Save the City Money, Report Says, Mary Johnson, DNAInfo (Feb. 17, 2012)
• Advocates: Paid Sick Days Would Cut ER Costs, Celeste Katz, New York Daily News/Daily Politics (Feb. 16, 2012)
• Quinn and Bloomberg's Roller-Coaster Relationship, John Farley, Metro Focus (Feb. 13, 2012)
• A million workers lacking paid sick days is a growing shame of the city, Albor Ruiz, New York Daily News (Feb. 3, 2012)
• Gran porcentaje de trabajadores en EU no puede darse el lujo de faltar al trabajo (Spanish-language Video), Univision (Feb. 2, 2012)
• Quinn’s Friendship With Lobbyist May Pose Test in Mayor Bid, Kate Taylor and David W. Chen, New York Times (Feb. 1, 2012)
• Restaurant Workers' Group Releases Ethical Eating Guide, Abbie Fentress Swanson, WNYC (Jan. 31, 2012)
• Interview with Nancy Rankin on Still Sick in the City, WBAI (Jan. 31, 2012)
• Some Eateries Serving Up the Flu With Lunch, Emily Anne Epstein, Metro (Jan. 29, 2012)
• Paid Sick Leave: The Time Has Come, David. R. Jones, NY Amsterdam News (Jan. 19-25, 2012)
• The Right to Be Sick, Editorial, El Diario (Jan. 19, 2012) for Spanish, click here.
• Nuevo remedio para medida sobre días de enfermedad, Annie Correal (Jan. 19, 2012)
• Dozens Rally by City Hall to Revive Bill for Paid Sick Days, Michael Herzenberg, NY1 (Jan. 18, 2012)
• The Next Big Progressive Fight, Colin Campbell, NY Observer/Politicker NY (Jan. 18, 2012)
• Paid Sick Days are Back in City Council Spotlight, Daniel Massey, Crain's New York (Jan. 18, 2012)
• A Coming Compromise on NYC Paid Sick Leave?, Celeste Katz, New York Daily News/Daily Politics (Jan. 18, 2012)
• They Labor for Sick Days Bill, Celeste Katz, New York Daily News (Jan. 18, 2012)
• Rally for Paid Sick Time: Brooklyn Review, Brooklyn Independent Television (Nov. 2, 2011)
• Kensington Rally Re-ignites Debate On Paid Sick Leave, Zach Campbell, Brooklyn Eagle (Oct. 19, 2011)
• Legislative Logjam In City Council Prompts Frustration, Courtney Gross, NY1 (June 27, 2011)
• Sick-Pay Votes Boost Bill in NYC, Daniel Massey, Crain's New York (June 3, 2011)

Previous Press on the New York City Paid Sick Time Act (2010)

• Diagnosing A Defeat: Why The Sick Leave Bill Failed, Neil deMause, City Limits (Dec. 21, 2010)
• Council Speaker Christine Quinn kills mandatory sick days bill, sides with businesses despite polls, Juan Gonzalez, NY Daily News (Oct. 15, 2010)
• Una decisión enfermiza, El Diario (Oct. 15, 2010)
• Quinn Pressed on Sick-Pay Bill, Daniel Massey, Crain's New York (Oct. 15, 2010)
• Council Speaker Shelves a Sick-Leave Bill, Patrick McGeehan, New York Times (Oct. 14, 2010)
• Too Bad Mayor Bloomberg was Never a Working Mother, Amy Impellizzeri, Huffington Post (Oct. 13, 2010)
• Paid Sick Leave Study Sparks Fevered Debate, Michael Howard Saul, WallStreet Journal (Sept. 28, 2010)
• Dueling Numbers on Sick Leave, Gail Robinson, Gotham Gazette (Sept. 28, 2010)
• Study's Cost of Paid Sick Leave: $789M a Year, Daniel Massey, Crain'sNew York (Sept. 27, 2010)
• NYC Paid Sick Leave Rally Draws Crowds, Opposition and Gloria Steinem, Amy Impellizzeri, MomsRising (Aug. 26, 2010)
• Paid Sick Leave The Brian Lehrer Show, WYNC (May 13, 2010)
• Más cerca pago por enfermedad El Diario, (May 12, 2010)
• Paid Sick Leave Has Ample Support in City Council Ilya Marritz, WNYC (May 12, 2010)
• City's Sick-Pay Plan: A Battle of Perspective Wall Street Journal, (May 11, 2010)
• Paid Sick Time Act Gets Second Hearing Helena Zhu, Epoch Times (May 11, 2010)
• Public Hearing on Controversial Paid Sick Leave Bill Draws Packed Crowd DNAinfo (May 11, 2010)
• Sick Leave Bill Reintroduced, May Burden Businesses, Jack Phillips, Epoch Times (Mar. 26, 2010)
• 9-day 'paid sick leave' law push, Sally Goldberg, New York Post (Mar. 26, 2010)
• Activists Push for Sick Days Reform, Bob Hennelly, WNYC (Mar. 26, 2010)
• Paid Sick Days: A Healthy Business Climate for NYC, John Petro, Huffington Post (Mar. 25, 2010)
• Sick Leave Back at the Council, Courtney Gross, Gotham Gazette (Mar. 25, 2010)
• A Right to Be Sick, Gail Robinson, Gotham Gazette (Mar. 25, 2010)
• NYC Sick-Days Bill Set to be Reintroduced, Daniel Massey, Crain's New York (Mar. 24, 2010)
• Paid Sick Time Would Help, Not Burden, All Businesses, Council Member Domenic Recchia, NY Daily News (Jan. 26, 2010)

Previous Press on the New York City Paid Sick Time Act (2009)

• The Need for Paid Sick Leave, Council Member Sara Gonzalez, El Barrio (Dec. 10, 2009)
• Businesses rip mandate on sick days, Sally Goldenberg, NY Post (Nov. 18, 2009)
• Gloria Steinem Supports Paid Sick Days, Video (Nov. 18, 2009)
• Making business sicker, NY Post (Nov. 18, 2009)
• Labor Advocates, Small Business Groups Clash Over Proposed Paid Sick Leave Bill, Erin Einhorn and Celeste Katz, NY Daily News (Nov. 18, 2009)
• Debaten días de enfermedad pagados, Cándida Portugués, El Diario (Nov. 18, 2009)
• NYers Speak Out on Paid Sick Leave, Cindy Rodriguez, WNYC (Nov. 18, 2009)
• Council Reignites Paid Sick Leave Debate, Bobby Cuza, NY1 (Nov. 17, 2009)
• Should Paid Sick Days be the Law? Some Small Business Owners Worry About Higher Costs, Phyllis Furman, NY Daily News (Nov. 16, 2009)
• City Council to Consider Paid Sick Leave Bill This Week, WNYC (Nov. 16, 2009)
• MTA Rejects Sick Day Ad, Video, WPIX (Nov. 2009)
• Cough up Sick Days, Elizabeth Henderson, The Indypendent (Oct. 30, 2009)
• A Depression for Latinos, El Diario (Oct. 29, 2009)
• Look for the new subway poster campaign for paid sick leave, Amy Impellizzeri, NY Working Moms Examiner (Oct. 27, 2009)
• Paid Sick Leave, the Brian Lehrer Show, Audio, WYNC (Oct. 26, 2009)
• Your job or your health, Editorial, El Diario (Oct. 20, 2009)
• Nearly Half of Workers in City Lack Paid Sick Days, Report Finds, New York Times (Oct. 16, 2009)
• Small Business Employees in New York, Many of them Immigrants, March to Demand Paid Sick Time, Feet in Two Worlds (Oct. 5, 2009)
• New York workers deserve paid sick leave, Daily News (Oct. 4, 2009)
• Health Care? Not if You Can't Leave Work to Get It, New York Times (Oct. 2, 2009)
• Make the road for sick leave, New York Post (Oct. 2, 2009)
• Advocates Push for Mandatory Paid Sick Days, WNYC (Oct. 2, 2009)
  
• Piden pago de dias de enfermedad, El Diario (Oct. 2, 2009)
  
• Group Marches in Support of Paid Sick Days, NY1 (Oct. 1, 2009)
• 'Paid Sick Time Act' Supporters March In NYC, CBS 2 News (Oct. 1, 2009)
• Paid sick leave fever catches on in Council as bill requiring employer to pay gains steam, Daily News (Oct. 1, 2009)
• Former Tina's worker to join rally for paid leave after getting boot from job for going to hospital, Daily News (Oct. 1, 2009)
• Start of New School Year Rekindles Swine Flu Fears, Channel 11 WPIX (Sept. 9, 2009)
• Piden dias pagos por enfermedad de hijos, El Diario (Sept. 9, 2009)
• Swine Flu Paid Leave, FOX News (Sept. 9, 2009)
• Listen to ABB's Sherry Leiwant talk about the NYC Paid Sick Leave Initiative on WBAI, (Sept. 2, 2009)
• Piden Pagar Mas Dias De Enfermedad, Telemundo (Sept. 2009)
• Swine flu fight: Keep sick kids at home, but parents need paid sick days, says hero school nurse, Daily News (Sept. 8 2009)
• Officials Say Paid Sick Leave Will Alleviate H1N1, WNYC (Sept. 8, 2009)
• H1N1 Fears Prompt NYC Bill Mandating Sick Days , Channel 2 CBS News (Sept. 8, 2009)
• Chambers unite against sick-days bill, Crain's New York (Sept. 8, 2009) 
• Chronicling the First Day Back to School, City Room, New York Times (Sept. 8, 2009)
• Sweating the swine flu? Urge the Council to pass this bill, Daily News (Sept. 4, 2009)
• Nothing to Sneeze At: City's Swine Flu Plan, Wash Hands, Get Vaccine, Hope for Best , Daily News (Sept. 2, 2009).
• This Time, City Says It's Ready for Swine Flu, N.Y. Times (Sept. 1, 2009).
• Working Families Party's Dan Cantor blogs about Stopping Swine Flu: Paid Sick Days for All New Yorkers, Huffington Post (Sept. 1, 2009).
• We Can't Afford NOT to Give Employees Some Sick Time, Andrew Friedman, NY Daily News (Aug. 25, 2009).
• Luchar contra la ausencia de dias remunerados, El Diario (Aug. 25, 2009).  Click here to read the English translation. 
• Councilmembers Push for Mandatory Paid Sick Days, WNYC (Aug. 21, 2009) 
• Paid Sick Leave Draws Closer for City Workers, New York Times (Aug. 20, 2009)
• New Yorkers Strive for Paid Sick Days, Epoch Times (July 30, 2009) 

National Press on Swine Flu, Paid Sick Time, and Public Health (2009)

Read more about how paid sick time can benefit public health and help combat the swine flu. 

• No Sick Days for Swine Flu Sufferers, ABC News (October 7, 2009)
  
• Start of New School Year Rekindles Swine Flu Fears , Channel 11 WPIX (Sept. 9, 2009)
• Swine flu fight: Keep sick kids at home, but parents need paid sick days, says hero school nurse, Daily News (Sept. 8 2009)
• Officials Say Paid Sick Leave Will Alleviate H1N1, WNYC (Sept. 8, 2009)
• H1N1 Fears Prompt NYC Bill Mandating Sick Days , Channel 2 CBS News (Sept. 8, 2009)
• Sweating the swine flu? Urge the Council to pass this bill, Daily News (Sept. 4, 2009)
• Nothing to Sneeze At: City's Swine Flu Plan, Wash Hands, Get Vaccine, Hope for Best , Daily News (Sept. 2, 2009)
• This Time, City Says It's Ready for Swine Flu, N.Y. Times (Sept. 1, 2009)
• Working Families Party's Dan Cantor blogs about Stopping Swine Flu: Paid Sick Days for All New Yorkers, Huffington Post (Sept. 1, 2009)
• Read our open letter to NYC Mayor Bloomberg and NYC Health Commissioner Frieden.   
• Manhattan Borough President Scott Stringer blogs No Time To Be Sick (May 14, 2009)
• CDC Reversal on School Closings Due to Swine Flu May Be Welcome News to Working Parents, Examiner.com (May 6, 2009)
• The Cost of Staying Home Sick, New York Times editorial (May 5, 2009)
• Staying  Home Isn't Always Possible, Hartford Courant (May 3, 2009)
• Swine Flu or Not, Many Workers Can't Stay Home, A.P. (May 1, 2009)  
• A Sick Situation, Judith Warner, N.Y. Times blog (April 30, 2009).
• Must Servers Ask: Swine Flu With Your Entree?,  Heather Boushey, Center for American Progress (April 28, 2009)