One-third of Los Angeles residents now tell pollsters they are sick of their city.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is prepared to back a deal on stalled sick-pay legislation that would require New York City businesses with 20 or more employees to provide five paid sick days beginning next year, according to the lead sponsor of the bill.
The city's mayor, quoted by the Russian Interfax news agency said most of the remaining civilians were either too old or too sick to leave the city without help.
This summer, the AMA published the findings of a survey of 537 medical residents from around the country, in which 57 percent of residents said they'd worked while sick, the Kansas City Star reports.
"City fans are sick to death of United ruling their roost, and here's their chance, " he said.
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Last month Nottingham City Council started demanding sick-notes for short-term absence, sparking a protest among local doctors.
The baby boy was given oxygen before being taken by ambulance to the city's Royal Hospital for Sick Children, where he was treated for smoke inhalation.
New York City and Denver shot down paid sick day mandates last year, at least in part because of concerns that the mandates would threaten the survival of small businesses, or hurt their ability to hire.
Despite a veto-proof majority of council members supporting a bill to require city employers to provide workers with paid sick days, Ms. Quinn had blocked the measure from coming to the floor for years.
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But within days, advocates of a bill to require city employers to provide workers with paid sick days bombarded Ms. Sarandon with information on the sick-pay issue, prompting her to tweet that she would look into the matter.
On the sick-pay bill, Mr. Bloomberg said the city will review whether it can file any legal challenges to stop the legislation.
The New York City Is Not For Sale ad attacks Ms. Quinn from the left, depicting her as a creature of a smoke-filled room who, among other things, supported Mayor Michael Bloomberg's effort to seek a third term and opposed until recently a requirement that employers in the city offer workers paid time off when they are sick.
Last week, a version of the bill under consideration at a hearing required city businesses as few as five employees to grant five paid sick days each year.
It says a one-rule-for-all on the number of sick days allowed each year unfairly penalises officers working in high-pressure inner city environments.
Steven Goldman, a lawyer in New York City, has filed 400 or so lawsuits in the city on behalf of apartment dwellers and employees who believe mold made them sick.
The case of the sick elephants, in Lyon's Tete d'Or zoo, has gripped the city since mid-December.
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Kathryn Wylde, president of the Partnership for New York City, a business advocacy group, said as a principle her organization doesn't support mandated sick leave by municipal government.
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