Paid Maternity and Childcare Leave

Several major U.S. companies including Netflix, Chipotle and Microsoft recently began offering their employees paid sick and maternity leave, which is all well and good, if the company can afford it and still be able to compete with its simular competitors in the same economic sectors. The U.S. is currently the only industrialized country that doesn’t require companies to provide sick leave to their employees, but in these countries, the sectors are very heavily subsidized and in these countries, there are very high sales taxes. 35% of American workers do not receive any type of paid sick leave in the US.