A new study suggests that offering paid sick leave might reduce the rate of nonfatal injury among workers and improve the bottom line at the same time.
Using data on about 38,000 workers from a national survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, researchers found that from 2005 to 2008 the injury rate per 100 workers among those with paid sick leave was 2.59, compared with 4.18 among those without.
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