ArticleHealth affairs (Project Hope)2021
Olive Garden's Expansion Of Paid Sick Leave During COVID-19 Reduced The Share Of Employees Working While Sick.
Article in Health affairs (Project Hope), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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8 citing papers in PubMed, 30 citations in OpenAlex.
- Points-Based Attendance Systems Associated With Presenteeism Despite Paid Sick Leave Protections.Health affairs (Project Hope) · 2026Article
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- Beyond borders: Does firm-level exposure to state and local paid sick leave mandates lead to intra-firm spillovers?Journal of policy analysis and management : [the journal of the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management] · 2026Article
- Health and non-health benefits and equity impacts of individual-level economic relief programs during epidemics/pandemics in high income settings: a scoping review.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Foodborne Illness Outbreaks at Retail Food Establishments - National Environmental Assessment Reporting System, 25 State and Local Health Departments, 2017-2019.Morbidity and mortality weekly report. Surveillance summaries (Washington, D.C. : 2002) · 2023Article
- Exploring U.S. Food System Workers' Intentions to Work While Ill during the Early COVID-19 Pandemic: A National Survey.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Article
- Addressing Workplace Stressors Emerging from the Pandemic.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2022Article
- Knowing Well, Being Well: well-being born of understanding: Supporting Workforce Mental Health During the Pandemic.American journal of health promotion : AJHP · 2022Article
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Abstract
The COVID-19 pandemic has focused public and policy attention on the acute lack of paid sick leave for service-sector workers in the United States. The lack of paid sick leave is potentially a threat not only to workers' well-being but also to public health. However, the literature on the effects of paid sick leave in the US is surprisingly limited, in large part because instances of paid sick leave expansion are relatively uncommon. We exploit the fact that large firms in the US were not required to expand paid sick leave during the COVID-19 pandemic but that one casual dining restaurant in particular, Olive Garden, faced intense public pressure to do so. We drew on data collected from 2017 through fall 2020 from 10,306 food service-sector workers in the US by the Shift Project, which include employer identifiers. Using a difference-in-differences design, we found strong evidence of an increase in paid sick leave coverage among Olive Garden workers, as well as evidence that this expansion reduced the incidence of working while sick among front-line food service workers.
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