In stores and restaurants, the staff serving the public may be infected with COVID-19 because their bosses want them to keep working even when ill, say workers
Sick pay is essential to ensure people can work safely, Professor Kristen Harknett, cofounder of The Shift Project and an associate professor of sociology at the University of California San Francisco, told Insider.
The employee cares for her two-year-old and works part-time. Her husband works full time but isn't able to work from home. A night auditor at a hotel in Flint, Michigan, told Insider that he was forced to go into work while he was still positive for COVID-19, and said his employer had"given up" on COVID-19 safety protocols for staff.The employee said he came in early one day to take over a shift from a colleague who believed they had COVID-19. While they both wore masks and were"careful," he believes he had already caught the virus from his coworker but had not started presenting symptoms.
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