Paid Sick Leave as a Tool for COVID-19 Control
Publication | December 2020
This brief sets out how paid sick leave can play an important and cost-effective role in containing the spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) and protecting workers from loss of income due to sickness.
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The publication examines the case for a paid sick leave program as part of measures to suppress the transmission of COVID-19. It provides estimates of how much such a program would cost in payouts to workers, using the case of the Philippines. It finds that a combination of paid sick leave and expanded contact testing, tracing and isolation could control COVID-19 in the Philippines. A sick leave program would be affordable and much more cost-effective than other COVID-19 control measures.
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