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Sunday, December 20th, 2020

Mitch McConnell Is Trying To Block Mandatory Paid Sick Leave For Workers Who Get COVID

Author:     Paul McLeod
Source:     Buzz Feed News
Publication Date:     December 18, 2020, at 5:55 p.m. ET
 Link: Mitch McConnell Is Trying To Block Mandatory Paid Sick Leave For Workers Who Get COVID
Stephan:   Be very clear: the Republican Party and its Congressional leader Mitch McConnell don't give a damn about your wellbeing. They care only about the corporations who basically legally bribe them, and they demonstrate this allegiance every day. Here is but one example.
Moscow Mitch devoted servant of the corporations that fund him.

WASHINGTON — Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing to let businesses and governments deny sick leave to workers who fall ill with COVID-19.

As Congress negotiates an end-of-year pandemic aid bill, McConnell is trying to block an extension of a paid sick leave program for people who get COVID that expires in two weeks, according to multiple Hill sources with knowledge of the negotiations.

Back in March, Congress passed a law mandating that workers are able to draw two weeks of paid sick leave if they contract COVID, two weeks of paid sick leave to care for a quarantining relative, and up to 10 weeks of paid family leave to care for a child whose school or daycare is closed for COVID-related reasons.

Those provisions are set to expire at the end of the year. Democrats initially sought to broaden the scope of the program and extend it. Those goals were lowered to merely extending the program for several […]

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