Nearly half of all workers in California don't get a single paid sick day from their employers. Additionally, this state of affairs is far worse for some classes of employees than others.

The Institute for Women's Policy Research found that, among the overall 44 percent of California adult workers who don't get a paid sick day, 81 percent of those working in business with "frequent contact with the public" such as food service don't get PTO when they are ill.

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