A newly published survey of 30,000 hourly service sector workers, conducted between September 2017 and November 2019 by Berkeley's Shift Project, found that roughly 55% of workers at some of the largest grocery, food service, big box, and retail stores in the country said they lacked access to paid sick leave. "The widespread lack of paid sick leave for service sector workers has serious consequences for workers' own health, for the wellbeing of those they care for, as well as for public health," says assistant sociology professor Daniel Schneider, the Shift Project's founder and a co-author of the report. "During a global pandemic, these consequences become all the more urgent." As this reporter points out, an emergency coronavirus law has expanded paid sick leave in the U.S., but it exempts employers with 500 or more employees.