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Flu season fuels debate over paid sick time laws

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Activists hold signs during a rally at New York's City Hall on Friday to call for immediate action on paid sick days legislation in light of the continued spread of the flu.

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Sniffling, groggy and afraid she had caught the flu, Diana Zavala dragged herself in to work anyway for a day she felt she couldn’t afford to miss. A school speech therapist who works as an independent contractor, she doesn’t have paid sick days. So the mother of two reported to work and hoped for the best — and was aching, shivering and coughing by the end of the day. She stayed home the next day, then loaded up on medicine and returned to work.
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