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Nice employee friendly decision by US govt<\/p>\n

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President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican presidential candidates for advocating what he said were anti-union policies.<\/p>\n

Starting in 2017, workers on government contracts will earn a minimum of one hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Contractors can offer more generous amounts at their discretion.<\/p>\n

According to the White House, an estimated 44 million private-sector workers, about 40 percent of the total private-sector workforce, do not have access to paid sick leave.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nice employee friendly decision by US govt President Barack Obama on Monday ordered government contractors to offer their workers seven days of paid sick leave a year and, without naming them, knocked Republican presidential candidates for advocating what he said were anti-union policies. Starting in 2017, workers on government contracts will earn a minimum of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":555,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[46,66],"tags":[61,136,137],"class_list":["post-521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-hr-2","tag-hr","tag-obama","tag-sick-leave"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4vlXG-8p","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":376,"url":"https:\/\/ejobsitesoftware.com\/blog\/what-can-hr-learn-from-the-self-employed\/","url_meta":{"origin":521,"position":0},"title":"What Can HR Learn From the Self-Employed?","author":"Robert Smith","date":"May 20, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"By Kazim Ladimeji With employee turnover and talent shortages at record highs, employee engagement at all time lows, talent management professionals are in a spin; they are navel gazing, soul searching, early adopting, innovating, lagging, ignoring, desperately trying to find the secrets to attracting, retaining and engaging talent. 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