No time to be sick
Subtitle: why everyone suffers when workers don't have paid sick leave
By: Vicky Lovell
Contributors: Institute for Women's Policy Research
Publisher: Institute for Women's Policy Research
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 19
ISBN-13: 9781878428875
Subjects: Sick Leave; Statistics; Economics; Trends
Notes: "This report was made possible by funding from the Ford Foundation and the Annie E. Casey Foundation."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 17-19).

Also available via the World Wide Web.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Policy context; title: Incidence of illness among workers and children; title: The Costs of not having paid sick leave; title: Why workers need sick leave even if they have vacation leave; title: Who has paid sick leave?; title: Permitted use of paid sick leave; title: Low-wage workers and paid sick leave; title: Paid sick leave and women; title: Summary and policy recommendations; title: Appendix: The BLS Dataset; title: References; title: List of figures.