The restaurant group owns Founding Farmers, Farmers Fishers Bakers, and Farmers & Distillers.

The regulation requires employees to call of out work 72 hours ahead of the time they anticipate being sick.

Councilmembers Jack Evans and Mary Cheh plan to propose an alternative at tomorrow’s vote.

Legislators have tried and failed for three years to get a law on the books.

Jack Evans and Yvette Alexander cast the two dissenting votes.

The D.C. Council is set to take a vote today.

That translates to about 2,000 fewer cases of the flu or flu-like illnesses a year.

The question over whether D.C.’s restaurant workers should be given paid sick leave has become an issue in the April 23 D.C. Council Special Election.

Via BoingBoing, we find a report by the Restaurant Opportunities Center United that ranks eateries across the country based on not only how good their food might be, but also how good they are to their workers.