Restaurant Workers are Serving While Sick

Did you know that almost 87.7% of restaurant workers surveyed do not receive paid sick days, and 63% have cooked or served food while sick?

How would you like to get your food prepared, cocktail mixed, or dinner served by someone who showed up to work with a runny nose or fever? No, thank you!

ROC-LA is engaged in a fight to win Paid Sick Days for all workers in the state of California and throughout the United States. Having to work while sick not only sucks for workers, but it can create a public health hazard for consumers. Illness outbreaks due to contamination from sick workers is a reality and affects thousands of people every year.

Join us in the campaign to pass a law that will allow workers to recover from an illness or get medical attention when they are too ill to go to work. For more information about the campaign to win Paid Sick Days, check out Support Paid Sick Days.

Katie Couric recently brought up the Congress's Healthy Families Act, making an appeal to pass the law to provide workers with paid sick time off. It's a great clip so check it out: Katie Couric, CBS - Sick at Work