California recently passed a law that starting next year, workers will be entitled to 5 days of sick time, up from 3 days.
My job was pretty generous with sick time, at the start of the year you would be allotted 3 days off the get go to use throughout the year. No sick time would rollover you would just restart with 3 days. Fair and simple.
There is talk now that our head of HR is changing the policy where we accrue 2 hours each check and have to save to get the full 5 days. So that’s roughly 4 hours of sick time a month. God forbid you get sick early in the year during winter.
Obviously none of us workers that are aware of this are happy about this proposed change. It hasn’t been officially announced yet but the talk of it has worked its way down the grapevine.
We work in hospitality with roughly 500 employees give or take, we have a single department that employs over 100 people alone and any little stink they throw about stuff usually gets placated to make them happy. They are the breadwinners for our company, without going too much into detail they are service providers that make us a lot of money.
We are already thinking about stoking the flames and have them raise hell with complaints.
What else can we do? Is it even worth the fight?