“While the group supported another bill that would increase sick leave to five days, it argued that expanding it to seven days would be “something that really not all businesses can afford to do.”
Someone from Europe recently asked here how Americans ended up in the current situation with no worker rights and no protections. That's how. Big capital at work, paying lobbyists to not allow workers to get well and forcing them to work being sick. And that's California for you, the most progressive state.
What europeans should realise is that american progressives are further right than european conservatives when it comes to worker rights.
https://calmatters.org/newsletters/whatmatters/2023/07/california-legislature-bills-deadline/