The Denver City Clerk today ruled that the signatures submitted for the paid sick and safe days initiative were sufficient to qualify for the November municipal ballot!
Check out what Colorado Public Health Association president Kyle Letleiter says: “The paid sick and safe time ballot initiative is all about protecting public health. Lower wage workers in restaurants, childcare centers and medical caregiving need paid sick days to protect the diners, children and patients with whom they interact, as well as themselves, their families and co-workers.”
We couldn’t be more pleased that Denver voters will have the opportunity to vote on this issue, especially since polling shows that two-thirds of Denver voters support the ballot language, including Republicans, Independents and Democrats.
Given that, maybe this is one issue we can all agree on, regardless of our party affiliations?
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This is great news. Everyone should have paid sick days. In a past job, we didn’t have them. People would come to work sick and get me sick, and then my kids would get sick. Disgusting never-ending cycle. We all would have been better off if we had paid sick days and weren’t forced to choose between going to work sick or losing a day’s pay.
As a Denver voter I am excited to have the opportunity to vote on such an important issue.
This is very exciting! Finally something positive for voters to vote on. Everyone deserves paid sick days!
It is very exciting that Denver will have the opportunity to vote on a ballot issue that appears to have such ham-handed, inept social media coordinators!
if I was the only person who noticed that. How I love you sometimes.
Seriously, I enthusiastically support the cause, and I’m genuinely glad you’re posting on the effort — but creating multiple accounts just to say “yeah me too” just pisses off the blog regulars.
I don’t care if they’re fake people or real people like the folks in the adjacent cubicles; when the accounts are created just to agree with you, it’s not helpful.
So I hear you about new posters and all but I honest-to-goodness don’t know who these new folks are. They aren’t me, that’s for sure. Although I have to say I’m glad someone is happy about the news we’re on the ballot.
Holmes, they may not be YOUR sockpuppets, but they are definitely sockpuppets.
I know you’re a good player around here, so if they’re not your own sockpuppets, I apologize. They clearly are BS, though, as shown by their creation within hours of each other to post the same thing almost verbatim. After BJ’s creationism and Muslim-bashing, and MarkG’s rants against democracy, sockpuppeting is one of the top annoyances ’round here.
I corrected the misconception and offered to try to put them in touch with the author of these posts, but no response. In any case, I think it’s safe to say that the people behind this initiative are organized and enthusiastic, just clueless about how to CORRECTLY do social media.
(Hint: Step one is firing the astroturfing company.)
again. You’re saving me a lot of typing time by just letting me agree w/ you.
The market solution is to fire workers who get sick. Guess what? With 10% unemployment, there’s always someone healthy to take over for you on Wednesday when your boss sees you scratching your mosquito bite. Right to work 4LIFE!
when you stop fucking swearing?
Let this be a lesson, kiddies . . .
hallucinations.
n/t
B/c some people are master-race dudes who don’t get sick, or at least capable of working through the sniffles. A teacher who gets sick should go get a real job. Wait, have I just been possessed by David T?
Before it’s too late.
Does it have any provision for temp workers? As it is now, even thuogh I am assigned to a government agency, I do not get paid sick days, nor do I get paid holiays because I am a temp.
If you’re employed by a temp agency or other private business with no CBA, depending on the size of the business you will get between 40-90 hours of paid sick time (one hour for every 30 hours worked.)
The only people who would not be covered by this law would be government workers, people who are covered by a CBA, and independent contractors. Temp, part-time, and full-time workers are covered.
I am employed by one of the larger temp agencies.
I’m not exactly sure if it’s the temp agency or the company that you are doing temp work for that is required to offer paid sick time. All I know is that after 3 months, all workers including temps, start earning one hour for every 30 hours worked, up to 40 hours for companies with fewer than 10 workers, and 90 hours for larger businesses.
Check the actual language to see how it will affect you personally. It’s about 14 pages long.
It would be the temp agency that has to pay the sick pay, but I am sure they would bill it to the client the saem way they bill them for my hours.
Actually, only state and federal govt employees are excluded since the City doesn’t have jurisdiction over them. And workers covered by a collective bargaining agreement have to specifically opt out of the policy in the CBA (they aren’t just automatically excluded).
this issue and school board elections (municipal elections for city offices, of course, are already over)?
Low-turnout election, for sure.