![]() ![]() 1 Without a federal policy, access to paid sick leave in the US varies by city and state or is at the discretion of employers, resulting in stratification by work sector and socioeconomic status. In contrast, every European Union Member State offers employees the right to paid sick leave and sick pay. The United States is one of two countries in the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development that does not guarantee paid sick leave to employees. Using a difference-in-differences design, we found strong evidence of an increase in paid sick leave coverage among Olive Garden workers, as well as evidence that this expansion reduced the incidence of working while sick among front-line food service workers. We drew on data collected from 2017 through fall 2020 from 10,306 food service–sector workers in the US by the Shift Project, which include employer identifiers. ![]() We exploit the fact that large firms in the US were not required to expand paid sick leave during the COVID-19 pandemic but that one casual dining restaurant in particular, Olive Garden, faced intense public pressure to do so. However, the literature on the effects of paid sick leave in the US is surprisingly limited, in large part because instances of paid sick leave expansion are relatively uncommon. The lack of paid sick leave is potentially a threat not only to workers’ well-being but also to public health. The COVID-19 pandemic has focused public and policy attention on the acute lack of paid sick leave for service-sector workers in the United States. ![]()
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