Olive Garden and Other Chain Restaurants Will Now Offer Paid Sick Leave Due to Coronavirus

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After Judd Legum called the company out on Twitter, they changed their policy

Darden already had paid-leave policy changes in the works, but coronavirus had sped up the negotiations. With the new policy, employees will receive one hour of sick leave for every 30 hours worked. Current employees will be credited for the time they have worked in the past 26 weeks, while new employees will not be able to use their sick leave time until 90 days into their employment.

As of Monday, there have been 595 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in the United States. The majority of the cases are in Washington state, California and New York. — careful hand washing, avoiding touching the face, moving away from people who are coughing or sneezing and staying home at signs of illness.

 

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Ya makes me want to rush on down to any of those fine restaurants. Lol. What kind of hoops are their employees going to have to jump through to qualify?

All employers All industries All size companies even 1 employee Should follow same, including for daily wages, temporary, part time n hourly employees, contract or no contract employees, contractor 🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

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