Daily News | Philadelphia has paid COVID sick leave, but some workers must ‘fight for every hour’
, sparking a bipartisan split in the vote and alarming businesses and interest groups who feared their members would be unduly burdened.
“That would have been devastating,” said Whitney Harris, who runs a Philadelphia-based human resources consulting agency called Wolford HR. Harris operates HR services for clients spanning industries from restaurant to accounting who employ around 270 workers between them.“My clients treat their employees with care and if they need the time off, we do what we can but to be mandated,” she said, “would have been a struggle.
“In our experience, what we found is that employers, in particular employers at the airport, don’t share this information with their workers,” Nissim-Sabat said. “Hospitality workers are on the front lines, dealing with the repercussions of COVID.” El Comite de Trabajadorxs de Restaurantes, a subgroup facilitated by 215 People’s Alliance, is working on those barriers.
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