To: The Indiana State House, The Indiana State Senate, and Governor Eric Holcomb
Fight back against Indiana's anti-sick pay laws!
Indiana currently has no state law mandating that employers pay their workers sick pay. This is more than just a hardship for the workers on the lower end of the pay scale, this has real world consequences when you consider the plight of the low wage employees in the food service and healthcare industries. When most poor employees get sick they have to try to work or they won't be able to make rent. Trust me, I know! I'm being sued for eviction right now for getting the flu at work and somehow after almost 5 years of full time work I still don't earn the right to get sick even though I work in a nursing home as a CNA. This issue isn't just affecting me this way, it is the plight of many workers in the state of Indiana working in healthcare care or in our food service industry. It's surprising that we still haven't figured out why so many people die from infections they have acquired during their stay in a healthcare setting where the employees working first hand with them are so poverty stricken that they can't even afford to go home when they have something contagious or why so many viruses are spread through our food.
This is why some towns and counties in Indiana have passed local laws requiring mandatory sick pay for the workers in their towns. But the big business interests that run this state have responded by passing a reactionary and unconstitutional law allowing for the state to restrict individual towns from setting their own laws about this. Fight back and tell your Indiana state senator to fight back for public health and workers rights! Look up your state senator here (http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/legislators/)
This is why some towns and counties in Indiana have passed local laws requiring mandatory sick pay for the workers in their towns. But the big business interests that run this state have responded by passing a reactionary and unconstitutional law allowing for the state to restrict individual towns from setting their own laws about this. Fight back and tell your Indiana state senator to fight back for public health and workers rights! Look up your state senator here (http://iga.in.gov/legislative/2014/legislators/)
Why is this important?
I am a Certified Nursing Assistant who has been twice sued for eviction due to loss of pay from being sick from viruses and bugs acquired at my job. I have almost 10 years of experience and still have not earned the right to be sick from working with sick people and seeing that my state is fighting against my personal health and financial situation just makes me ashamed of my family for letting me be born in this state. Let's make ourselves proud of Indiana again! Contact your state senator or representative or the governor I don't care but please join this fight!