//Millions left without paid sick leave after Congress let pandemic benefit expire

Millions left without paid sick leave after Congress let pandemic benefit expire

Tens of millions of workers lost the right to paid sick and family leave at the end of December after Congress failed to extend them in the new relief package.Congress provided the pandemic-related benefit in March to give ill workers and parents whose children’s schools were suddenly closed a cushion. But lawmakers left out the guaranteed paid leave in a broad economic stimulus deal passed