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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by amluto on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @09:19PM (#22744690)
No. All employers should be required to tell employees “if you believe you have a communicable disease that could infect your coworkers or customers, then you MUST NOT come to work, and we or the government will find a way to take care if you.”

This should be the case regardless of any pandemic. Allowing an employee with a mild flu to come to work is irresponsible.

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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by knodi123 on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @10:20AM (#22748738)
The comment I replied to was "isolate and self-quarantine". You're talking about self-quarantine, but isolate sounds more like a preventative step.
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by alexpetralia on Tuesday March 31, 2020 @10:00PM (#22744878)
What prevents a worker from stating they believe they have coronavirus? Surely you'd agree there is an incentive to do so (stay home and get paid).
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Re:Whole Foods employees are staging a nationwide 'sick-out' by amluto on Wednesday April 01, 2020 @01:01AM (#22745864)
Getting this right is probably moderate complicated, but there are plenty of countries that do it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sick_leave#Germany

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