IF YOU WANT PEOPLE TO STAY HOME WHEN THEY’RE SICK, THIS IS PROBABLY NECESSARY: Kentucky bill requiring paid sick days filed in response to coronavirus outbreak. I was talking to one of the employees at the UT Law School’s “Sidebar Cafe” who was worried that if we went online-only after Spring Break she’d be out of work, which would be disastrous. For hourly people, things are often pretty close to the bone, and expecting them to take two weeks off without pay is expecting a lot.