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Cindy lives in Branford. Cindy's company punishes the use of only 3 sick days, so when she underwent surgery for an aneurysm and needed follow-up care, she was reprimanded and her job was threatened.
Christine, of Milford, was fired from her job for taking a few hours to care for her sick children because she worked somewhere without sick days.
Tyrika, a Bloomfield resident, is a school bus driver who needs paid sick days so that she doesn't have to drive children around when she is sick.
Natalie, from Norwalk, works as a home health aid, and sometimes has to go to work and care for elderly or ill patients while sick because as her family faces foreclosure, because she cannot afford to miss a single day of pay.
Cindy lives in Branford. Cindy's company punishes the use of only 3 sick days, so when she underwent surgery for an aneurysm and needed follow-up care, she was reprimanded and her job was threatened.
Suley Hernandez lives works in retail. When she gets sick, she has to go to work anyway to pay the bills. But when her daughter gets sick, it's a different story. Her daughter's not allowed to go to Head Start Sick. So Suely has to go to leave her daughter home alone, or skip work, lose pay, and risk getting fired.
This is Rosa Soto, 51 years old, from New Britain. She works at Wal-Mart, where if she can't come in to work, she won't get paid.
