Potential Economic Benefits of Paid Sick Leave in Reducing Absenteeism Related to the Spread of Influenza-Like Illness
| Autor: | Abay Asfaw, Roger R. Rosa, Regina Pana-Cryan |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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Male medicine.medical_specialty MEDLINE Article 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Nursing Absenteeism Humans Medicine 030212 general & internal medicine Respiratory Tract Infections Influenza-like illness 030505 public health Respiratory tract infections Salaries and Fringe Benefits business.industry Economic return Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health virus diseases Presenteeism Economic benefits Models Economic Family medicine Sick leave Female Sick Leave 0305 other medical science business |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine. 59:822-829 |
| ISSN: | 1076-2752 |
| DOI: | 10.1097/jom.0000000000001076 |
| Popis: | Most U.S. employers are not required to provide paid sick leave (PSL), and there is limited information on the economic return of providing PSL. We estimated potential benefits to employers of PSL in reducing absenteeism related to the spread of influenza-like illness (ILI).We used nationally representative data and a negative binomial random effects model to estimate the impact of PSL in reducing overall absence due to illness or injury. We used published data to compute the share of ILI from the total days of absence, ILI transmission rates at workplaces, wages, and other parameters.Providing PSL could have saved employers $0.63 to $1.88 billion in reduced ILI-related absenteeism costs per year during 2007 to 2014 in 2016 dollars.These findings might help employers consider PSL as an investment rather than as a cost without any return. |
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