Paid Sick Days Improve Public Health by Reducing the Spread of Disease

Written in 2006 by Vicky Lovell for the Institute for Women's Policy Research

Lovell’s issue brief explains how providing paid sick days promotes a healthier, more productive workforce and reduces the spread of disease in the workplace. Inversely, workers who must go to work sick because they lack paid sick days may infect coworkers and customers, increasing work absence and health care spending.