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3. From the link:
Sun Oct 12, 2025, 08:56 PM
Sunday
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



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 Shortly after the mandate went into effect, Republicans in the legislature repealed it outright.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.



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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