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Ums_Hr_Important News For Spring Semester 2021, University Of Maine System
Ums_Hr_Important News For Spring Semester 2021, University Of Maine System
Office of Human Resources
Email from University of Maine System Human Resources to University of Maine System employees with updates pertaining to available leave options, pay guidance, COVID-19 testing, and updated training resources.
Pandemics, Paid Sick Leaves, And Tax Institutions, Alex Zhang
Pandemics, Paid Sick Leaves, And Tax Institutions, Alex Zhang
Faculty Articles
The COVID-19 pandemic is currently ravaging the world, and the United States has been largely unsuccessful at containing the coronavirus. One long-standing policy failure stands out as having exacerbated the pandemic in our country: the lack of a national mandate of paid sick leaves, without which workers face financial and workplace-cultural pressures to attend work while sick, thus spreading the virus to their fellow employees and the public at large.
This Article provides the blueprint for a national, subsidized mandate of paid sick leaves and two additional insights about our tax institutions as mechanisms of effectuating broader societal goals. It …