By Doug Cunningham

Support is growing in big cities to legally require that workers get paid sick days. San Francisco voters passed a ballot initiative that gives up to nine days of paid sick leave a year to fulltime workers. A survey of public opinion in New York City shows seventy percent support for making paid sick leave available for all workers. That survey – conducted by Lake Research Partners for the Community Service Society, shows that 65 percent of New York City’s working poor have no paid sick leave. Debra Ness, President of the National Partnership for Women and Families, says nearly half of private sector workers have no paid sick days. She says low wage workers are hit the hardest by having to lose pay when they’re sick.