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The pandemic prompts more companies to offer paid sick time and leave—but millions of workers still don’t

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No cushion For many workers, patchwork time-off provisions result in gaps at crucial times. When Krista Dixon and her husband, 4-year-old daughter and 5-month-old twins tested positive for Covid-19 in January, she was able to take a week of accrued paid time to recover and care for her family.

But during the second week of her quarantine, while still experiencing intense shortness of breath, she returned to work remotely.

Ms. Dixon exhausted her banked sick days, which amounted to less than two weeks’ time, after giving birth to her twins the previous July.

She took the remainder of her 10-week maternity leave unpaid. She worries that the lingering Covid symptoms that she and her husband both experienced for months were the result of not

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