This November you can vote for more paid time off. 56 hours or 7 days of paid time off to be exact. The referendum that will be on Missouri ballots this year and would require employers to provide one hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked. The St. Louis Labor Tribune has the story…
MINIMUM WAGE/PAID SICK LEAVE
Proposition A, the minimum wage/paid sick leave measure, would raise Missouri’s minimum wage from $12 an hour to $15 an hour by 2026, helping an estimated 137,000 parents working at the current minimum wage and more than 338,000 Missouri children who live in households with a minimum-wage breadwinner.
The measure would also guarantee paid sick time to workers. Under the measure, employers would need to provide one hour of sick time for every 30 hours an employee works at large employers, requiring employers to honor use of up to 40 hours of accumulated paid sick time per year if a company has fewer than 15 employees, or 56 hours per year if there are 15 or more employees.
What better way to help restore work/life balance from this extreme scheducle? Please take a little time in November to vote, and then take some paid leave time and get your life back!
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