Just Heard Thom Hartman Talk About Restaurants Not Offering Sick Days For Their Employees....

[global1]

people that handle our food. If they are sick - they really can't afford to stay home - so they work sick. If they have the flu - like many in this country do now - they are potential spreaders of the flu.

Restaurants don't offer sick days because of the cost. This got me to thinking - what about the State Department of Health - the group that I think inspects restaurants from a 'public health' standpoint. Do they have any leverage with a restaurant - to make sure that sick people aren't handling our food and potentially passing on the flu bug or whatever to us.

Seems to me the Dept of Health should have some say in this seeing that it is their job to protect the health of the people.

[Fresh_Start]

1. sounds like an opportunity for social media

when you look at restaurant ratings...shouldn't you know if you are likely to be at risk of infectious diseases because the restaurant doesn't have a reasonable sick day policy.

From now on, post your rating and say the server's nose/ear or whatever was dripping....

[99Forever]

2. No snark intended.

But were you honestly not aware of this? It's always been this way, and not just in the food industry. The lower the pay scale, the more likely there will be not only no paid time off, but usually no benefits of any kind. Almost no retail or service industry employees get the things the more fortunate, higher waged and salaried personnel take for granted.

[Downwinder]

3. No sick days for employees

will lead to sick days for customers.

[hobbit709]

4. Not only no sick days but if you miss three days you're out of a job in most cases.

[SoCalDem]

5. Restaurant work has always been "marginal" employment for most

of their workers.. Family restaurants employ ONLY family and they all trade off when someone is sick.. Itls usually no biggie, since many of them are not even paid workers.

Other restaurants have always had a LOT of part-timers who rarely get even enough hours to live on (their pay usually is well-below min wage), and most have NO benefits.

This type of work ...along with MOST service jobs was never intended to be work that provided a living income or enough to support oneself..

There was always a steady stream of :

Moms looking for a little extra money while Dad watched the kids at night...or while kids were at school
teenagers after school & on weekends
struggling wannabee actors
retired folks looking for a little extra to supplement their pensions

Our "service economy" has now morphed those low wage service jobs into "family supporting jobs" and it will never work out for the ones who have only those jobs......

70% service economy for a country as large as ours is a LOSING proposition...

[Fumesucker]

6. I wouldn't give them any ideas if I were you

Next thing you know there'll be a charge on the check for boosting your immune system by exposing you to so many diseases.