{"id":6826,"date":"2020-05-13T17:09:28","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T00:09:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/?p=6826"},"modified":"2021-03-17T17:10:17","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T00:10:17","slug":"protecting-health-during-covid-19-and-beyond-a-global-examination-of-paid-sick-leave-design-in-193-countries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/13\/protecting-health-during-covid-19-and-beyond-a-global-examination-of-paid-sick-leave-design-in-193-countries\/","title":{"rendered":"Protecting Health during COVID-19 and beyond: A Global Examination of Paid Sick Leave Design in 193 Countries"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"39\" data-aria-posinset=\"1\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Heymann et al. assess the availability of paid sick leave in 193 UN member states.\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">They found\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">27%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0of<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0countries do not guarantee paid sick leave from the first d<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">ay of illness, and 58%<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0do not have explicit provisions to ensure self-employed and gig economy workers have access to paid sick leave benef<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">its.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li data-leveltext=\"\uf0b7\" data-font=\"Symbol\" data-listid=\"39\" data-aria-posinset=\"2\" data-aria-level=\"1\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Critical gaps remain between\u00a0jeopardize\u00a0health and economic security. Comprehensive paid sick leave policies that cover all workers are urgently needed to reduce the spread of COVID-19, and\u00a0be ready to respond to threats from new pathogens.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;134233279&quot;:true,&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:360,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><i><span data-contrast=\"none\">Heymann et al. (May 12, 2020). Protecting Health during COVID-19 and beyond: A Global Examination of Paid Sick Leave Design in 193 Countries. Global Public Health.<\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17441692.2020.1764076\"><span data-contrast=\"none\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/17441692.2020.1764076<\/span><\/a><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;201341983&quot;:0,&quot;335559685&quot;:720,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Heymann et al. assess the availability of paid sick leave in 193 UN member states.\u00a0They found\u00a027%\u00a0of\u00a0countries do not guarantee paid sick leave from the first day of illness, and 58%\u00a0do not have explicit provisions to ensure self-employed and gig economy workers have access to paid sick leave benefits.\u00a0 Critical gaps remain between\u00a0jeopardize\u00a0health and economic security&#8230;.<\/p>\n<div><a class=\"more\" href=\"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/2020\/05\/13\/protecting-health-during-covid-19-and-beyond-a-global-examination-of-paid-sick-leave-design-in-193-countries\/\">Read more<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"topic":[16],"class_list":["post-6826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-summary","topic-public-health-policy-and-practice"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6826"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6827,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6826\/revisions\/6827"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6826"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/pandemicalliance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=6826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}