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Robert Reich Dec 5, 2022

Only in America do we call working people ‘essential’ but deny them paid sick leave.

We don’t need to treat essential workers like heroes. We need to treat them like human beings with dignity.

Raise their wages. Give them hazard pay. Guarantee health care and paid sick leave.

@rbreich not just US tho' you undoubtedly have a wider problem. UK has been steadily following worst practice with 'zero hour contracts' and false 'self-employed' status for far too many essential workers, and those forced into gig-economy to juggle more than one job to make ends meet. Only Uber UK forced to make recent u-turn to keep licence in London, many others haven't.