During flu season last year, Alfredo Galdamez recalls several co-workers showing up for work at his Chicago restaurant while sick. The eatery had an open kitchen, and at times the dishwasher could see cooks coughing or sneezing near the food they prepared.
Galdamez admits that he, too, washed dishes while ill, knowing that he could easily pass his sickness on to co-workers as well as diners. As is customary in the restaurant business, he received no paid sick leave, meaning if he didn't clock in, he didn't get paid. Regardless, his superiors urged him to work even if he felt under the weather, he said.
"I went into work with a fever, the flu, a cold," Galdamez, 44, said. "They told me I had to continue to work. They said, 'We have people here who want to eat.'"
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