Voters in Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska were asked last year whether they wanted to require employers to provide paid sick leave to their workers. They overwhelmingly said yes.

Voters in Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska overwhelmingly approved paid sick leave laws last year. Now some lawmakers in those states are trying to roll back the benefits before they begin.

Voters in Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska overwhelmingly approved paid sick leave laws last year.

An effort to add a proposal slowing voter-approved minimum wage increases to a bill weakening voter-passed paid sick leave failed.

Missouri Gov. Mike Kehoe signed the repeal of a law that guaranteed paid sick leave for workers and inflationary adjustments to minimum wage. Kehoe signed the repeal on Thursday, July 10, and it will ...