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Italy's New Law To Give Residents Paid Sick Leave To Care For Their Pet · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One six point seven l FM on this Thursday, May
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  Speaker 1: the seventh be with you, Covey Christine, producer CHRISTI, let's
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  Speaker 1: just say it every day.
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  Speaker 2: Thank yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Started with me the fourth, just keep going right tomorrow,
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  Speaker 3: made the eighth be with you. Okay, Christine, you with
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  Speaker 3: me right now? Yes, great news. If you have pets
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  Speaker 3: and you live in.
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  Speaker 2: Italy, I know, I love this.
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  Speaker 3: I hope they do it here.
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  Speaker 2: This is a new law in Italy. They have paid
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  Speaker 2: sick leave if your pet is sick.
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  Speaker 3: And it's no joke. I mean, your your pet is
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  Speaker 3: your family.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you love them so much. They're so important
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  Speaker 2: and for me, like I know, if my pet is sick,
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  Speaker 2: if I can't even think straight, I can't function. So
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  Speaker 2: Italy just made history the first country to offer paid
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  Speaker 2: leave for workers caring for their sick pets. It started
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  Speaker 2: with a court case back in twenty seventeen. A librarian
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  Speaker 2: in Rome fought for time off to care for her
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  Speaker 2: sick dog and one arguing that under Italian law, letting
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  Speaker 2: an animal suffer as a crime, so forcing someone to
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  Speaker 2: choose between work and their pet puts them in an
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  Speaker 2: impossible situation.
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  Speaker 3: I think it's great. I really do because if a
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  Speaker 3: personal family member of yours was in the hospital god forbid,
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  Speaker 3: or at the doctor, or.
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  Speaker 2: Really is down, really needs you, really need.
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  Speaker 3: You, you'll take a day off and usually it's approved, right,
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  Speaker 3: should be the same for pets.
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  Speaker 2: It should be. Sometimes there's an emergency situation too. You've
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  Speaker 2: been through with me, Yeah, so yeah it Archie, Yeah
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  Speaker 2: you got it was really scary one time, so there
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  Speaker 2: was no way I could have worked. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: I was hysterical right because they didn't want to have
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  Speaker 2: no Archie. But he legit needed me right there. So
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  Speaker 2: I do hope we can do that here.
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  Speaker 3: That'd be really cool that in the four day work week.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, work on all conversation.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you're busy gathering the headlines. What are
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