The Latest Research, Commentary, And News From Health Affairs
Friday, August 13, 2021
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In a new episode of Health Affairs This Week, Rob Lott and Jeff Byers discuss how public transportation affects health.
Paid Sick Leave At Olive Garden
In an August 2021
paper in Health Affairs, Daniel Schneider and coauthors explore the effects of public pressure on Olive Garden, the multistate casual dining chain, to expand paid sick leave amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
As part of the Families First Coronavirus Response Act, the federal government required employers with between 50 and 500 employees to provide paid sick leave to employees who may have contracted the virus, among other requirements. Large firms like Olive Garden, however, were exempt.
In their analysis, Schneider and coauthors observed a sustainable and significant increase in the share of Olive Garden
workers reporting access to paid sick leave, from 23 percent in spring 2019 to 66 percent in spring 2020.
They additionally found evidence that Olive Garden’s paid sick leave expansion reduced the incidence of presenteeism, or working while ill, among front-line food service workers, promoting both worker health and public
health.
Today on Health Affairs Blog, Purva Rawal and coauthors argue that achieving sustainable savings without compromising quality will require a patient-centered approach to policy making.
Alain Enthoven argues that the health care “system” we have is designed perfectly to deliver the unsatisfactory results we see, but there is a better approach: managed competition.
A new GrantWatch post by Corinne Lewis and Christina Wu discusses the Commonwealth Fund’s initiative to improve data collection on the long-term services and supports needs of working-age adults with disabilities.
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