Northwest Arkansas Worker Justice Center
cmonforton | February 5, 2016Consumers beware! A survey of 500 poultry-processing workers in Arkansas found that 62 percent said they have gone to work when they were sick. Why? Only 9 percent of the workers reported they had access to earned sick leave.
Have the flu? No problem. Come to work anyway and cut those chicken tenders.
Suffering from diarrhea? No worries. Come to work anyway and skin those chicken breasts.
The survey results, based on a representative sample of poultry workers in Arkansas, come from a report released today by the Northwest Arkansas Workers' Justice Center (NAWJC). The study, "Wage and Working…