http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/fox-news-wants-sick-people-sneezing-in-your-food/

While it’s not even remotely surprising that conservatives are going to gripe about the parental leave—many of them somehow both endorse compulsory motherhood while simultaneously telling women they shouldn’t have kids unless they can afford to quit their jobs to raise them—but pitching a fit over sick days shocked even me. But here they are:

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“This is all about politics. The president is lining up all of these giveaways, which he knows will not get through Congress. He knows the Republicans will say ‘No, we’re not going to do that.’ He knows that will make them look bad,” Varney gripes. Sorry, Varney, but the reason Republicans look bad is not because Obama makes them look bad. They look bad because they oppose common sense regulations to keep sick people from going to work. If anything, Obama is offering them a chance at redemption. They can pass his bill and give everyone paid sick leave, after all. That they refuse to do so is on them, not on him.

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In case this isn’t registering, here’s some fun examples! This Subway worker alleges that she was forced to work even though she was vomiting from a stomach bug. She even threw up on her shirt, but her boss just told her to change shirts. Eventually, an ambulance had to be called.

Jezebel collected some horror stories from restaurant workers about how a lack of sick days means they are showing up and breathing their gross germs all over your food:

Almost the exact thing happened to me. I was working at a cheap sushi restaurant and got food poisoning in the middle of my shift. I began vomiting over and over, about twice an hour. I was literally running in and out of the bathroom between taking orders because I couldn’t stop, I was so ill. What did my manager say when I asked if I could go home? He said no, we were short staffed because he’d already let a girl go home because she’d stayed up too late the night before doing cocaine. It took 4 hours from the point I started vomiting for him to finally let me leave, and he demanded I apologize to all my coworkers for “making them work harder”. Btw I didn’t even make it the 6 block walk home without vomiting in the gutter. I didn’t get fired right away, but I mysteriously stopped getting shifts about two weeks later despite being the oldest and most experienced server (at 20 years old, btw). Fuck the way restaurant workers are treated in this country.

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/01/fox-news-wants-sick-people-sneezing-in-your-food/