Most workers in Austin can earn at least 8 days of sick pay

AUSTIN (KXAN) — The Austin City Council is going forward with its sick pay ordinance, becoming the first city in Texas as well as the South to have mandatory sick pay. It passed early Friday morning around 12:40 a.m. Council members Ora Houston and Ellen Troxclair voted against it. The ordinance takes effect Oct. 1.
The vote came after four hours of public feedback, and about an hour of debate over amendments. The ordinance says that denying earned sick time to employees “is unjust,&