万花筒2008-01-18:强制性职工病假（在线收听）

Sike leave may be made mandatory in Washington D.C. at all businesses

A national movement to make sure you get sick days at work is catching on. Fortune small business reports / Washington D.C could become the second US city to require a mandatory sick leave at all businesses. Right now worker advocates estimate/ 70 million American employees don't have sick leave benefits. So the advocates are pushing for universal laws. San Francisco approved the sick leave law in 2006. Ten states plus the city of Milwaukee have introduced similar bills. None of them have passed yet. DC council members are scheduled to vote on February 5th.

Boeing has announced passengers will have to wait a while longer before the aerospace giant's newest jumbo jet hits the skys. Boeing says it's pushing back delivery of the first 787 dreamliner possibly by three months. That will give Boeing's workers more time to build the massive aircraft. The dreamliner will be Boeing's first newly designed commercial jet since the 777 began flying in 1995. The plane will boast technological advances that allows more fuel efficiency, bigger windows, less turbulence and higher humidity in cabins, which could lead to a more comfortable flight for you.

For Consumer Watch, I'm Lizz Kennedy