San Francisco, San Jose Workers to Get 80 Hours of Virus Pay (1)

Workers at large employers in the two most populous San Francisco Bay Area cities would get two weeks’ paid sick leave under proposals that passed in one city and was up for a vote in the other.

Emergency ordinances that passed in San Franciscoand San Jose on Tuesday would temporarily extend two weeks’ paid sick leave to workers not yet covered under the federal Families First Coronavirus Response Act (Public Law 116-136), signed March 18, that requires employees get paid sick leave for health reasons related to Covid-19. Private employers with 500 or more workers would be ...