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Healthy Tacoma is a simple idea: Ensure every worker in Tacoma can earn paid sick days on the job.
41,000 breadwinners in Tacoma – 41% of all workers – have no paid sick leave.
By ensuring every worker in our city can earn paid sick days, we can improve our economic security, public health and business productivity. Paid sick days will help:
- Build family economic security by ensuring workers can care for their health needs without losing a day’s wages or even their job.
- Protect public health by encouraging sick workers and children to stay home, away from co-workers, school, and customers.
- Lower health care costs by enabling workers to seek preventative care and early treatment for themselves, their children, and elderly parents.
- Create healthier workplaces, and more productive and profitable businesses by limiting the spread of disease, reducing the potential for workplace accidents, and boosting employee productivity, morale and commitment.
So, this is the Healthy Tacoma paid sick days plan:
- Personal Responsibility: Workers earn sick days by accruing one hour of paid sick time for every 30 hours worked.
- Business Flexibility: Employers can meet the minimum standard in flexible ways – for example, through Paid Time Off policies – and may exceed the minimum standard set by the ordinance.
- Sized To Fit: Workers can accrue up to 40 hours in companies with fewer than 10 employees and up to 72 hours in larger firms.
The Coalition for a Healthy Tacoma is working with the Tacoma City Council to enact a city ordinance to put our paid sick days plan into action. Learn more about us in the links above, and add your voice to our cause!
