I don’t know why the Republicans voted against paid sick leave. I’m a Republican and I would have voted for it with a certain restriction to keep workers from taking unethical advantage.
We had paid sick leave where I use to work and some people were out sick very frequently. Then all employees voted on a new sick policy that required that an employee be absent from work (sick) for 3 days before the paid sick leave started. And it passed with a huge margin in favor of it. With the new sick leave policy in place there were a lot less people calling in sick. I wonder why? HA!
FYI: I only called in sick about 5 or 6 times in the last 20 years and each time I was either in the ED or admitted into a hospital.