Robert Drago and Vicky Lovell. Institute for Women's Policy Research. February 2011.
“San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance: Outcomes for Employers and Employees” is based on a survey of 700 employers and 1,200 workers. The results show the overwhelming success of San Francisco’s Paid Sick Leave ordinance.
Two-thirds of employers are now supportive of the measure, two-thirds report no difficulty implementing it in their workplace, and employers “overwhelmingly report that their profits haven’t declined as a result of the law”. (However, one-fifth of area employers aren’t abiding by the measure at all.) Although workers are allowed to take between five and nine paid sick days a year, the study finds that a median of three days per year were used.
