Republicans Aren't Just Gutting Health Care. They're Taking Your Sick Leave, Too GOP-controlled legislatures have rolled

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Sorry, but I have used up my freebie for the month. But looks like an interesting article
I do not understand that if voter approved how this can happen.


Republicans Aren’t Just Gutting Health Care. They’re Taking Your Sick Leave, Too
GOP-controlled legislatures have rolled back and narrowed voter-approved paid sick leave policies

October 12, 2025

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/paid-sick-leave-under-attack-republican-states-1235445210/

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1. Fair enough US workers have it too good anyway right?

Dr Dr Tardigrade*
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Fair enough US workers have it too good anyway right?

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2. At least it should be something we can run on

Might as well make the best of the situation. That Republicans keep pushing unpopular policies needs to be a thing we're better at attacking on.

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3. From the link:

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/paid-sick-leave-under-attack-republican-states-1235445210/

REPUBLICANS AREN’T JUST GUTTING HEALTH CARE. THEY’RE TAKING YOUR SICK LEAVE, TOO

GOP-controlled legislatures have rolled back and narrowed voter-approved paid sick leave policies

By NIKKI MCCANN RAMIREZ
OCTOBER 12, 2025

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There is no federal law guaranteeing what, in most developed countries, is an uncontested, uncontroversial workers’ right. In fact, even as voters push to codify sick leave policies into local law, this year alone at least three Republican-controlled states are attempting to roll back leave provisions.

In Missouri, voters overwhelmingly approved a referendum guaranteeing statewide paid sick leave, and an increase to the state’s minimum wage. Shortly after the mandate went into effect, Republicans in the legislature repealed it outright. In Nebraska, Republicans tacked on an amendment to a similar law — also passed by referendum — that significantly narrowed the pool of businesses covered, and which employees were entitled to the benefit. The amendment also stripped employees of the right to sue over the enforcement of the law. In Alaska, the state’s Republican administration worked to limit the scope of its own ballot-approved sick leave law via regulations instituted by the Alaska Department of Labor & Workforce Development.

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Beck says Democrats tried to negotiate a way to preserve coverage for as many Missourians as possible, even if it meant limiting what businesses would be subject to the law, only to have the rug pulled out from them at the last moment.

“We got there and … they reneged on their deal in the middle of the middle of the night,” he adds.

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