Workers in California will soon receive a minimum of five days of paid sick leave annually, instead of three, under a new law Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Wednesday.
The law, which takes effect in January, also increases the amount of sick leave workers can carry over into the following year. Newsom said it demonstrates that prioritizing the health and well-being of workers “is of the utmost importance for California’s future.”
“Too many folks are still having to choose between skipping a day’s pay and taking care of themselves or their family members when they get sick,” Newsom said in a statement announcing his action.
The idea of carrying over sick days is bizarre. Sorry Dave, we know you’re fighting cancer, but you shouldn’t have had time off for the flu in the last few years and carried the days over, get back to your desk.
You have it backwards, are you under the impression that you are allocated X amount of days until retirement?
Sick days are accrued each year, if you can carry them over then every sick day you didn’t use gets added to your current year.
“Dave” could have saved up sick days, from the past years to get more full-time pay. However the fact that he didn’t, does not mean that he gets less sick time accrued this year.