For months, he has regularly lambasted Ms. Quinn about sick pay on the campaign trail.
North Tees and Hartlepool Foundation Trust wanted to reduce enhanced sick pay to staff working unsociable hours.
This could mean pay rises and rights to holidays, sick pay, maternity leave and access to private health benefits.
But access to credit and sick pay do not top the drivers' agenda.
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Mittelstand managers suggest that sick pay should start at 80% of the full wage, and drop with a prolonged absence.
Indeed, the government plans early on to restore the cuts Mr Kohl made to pensions, sick pay and other benefits.
But it also says, foolishly, that it will roll back reforms on pensions, dismissal of workers, sick pay and casual labour.
Undocumented workers are the most competitive of all, because employers don't need to worry about sick pay, holidays or the minimum wage.
The RMT is also demanding improvements to holidays, sick pay and pensions.
Mr Harris said there were currently no proposals being discussed by the Trust and that reducing sick pay and performance related pay were part of national proposals.
Employees and unions have reacted angrily to the plans, saying they could result in cuts to salaries, sick pay, holiday entitlement and extra payments made for working anti-social hours.
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But staff have remained worried about some of the changes, which are being looked at which include increasing working hours, cutting holiday entitlement and sick pay, and performance related pay progression.
The opposition Social Democrats are threatening to add to the list by rolling back some reforms, such as lower pensions and sick pay, if they win the general election in September.
Where the programme was specific over action for example, about its plans to reverse the government cuts in pensions and sick pay it was quite unspecific over finance: how would it pay for such measures?
City Council members have begun serious discussions about bucking Speaker Christine Quinn and forcing legislation she opposes a bill to require employers to provide workers with sick pay to the floor for a vote, an unprecedented maneuver.
But in their election manifesto they promise to roll back even the modest reforms the coalition has introduced such as cuts in sick pay and widows' pensions, and weaker job protection for workers in small businesses.
"If their employer is not paying employers' National Insurance, unbeknownst to them they may not then be entitled to statutory maternity pay if they become pregnant, they may not be entitled to statutory sick pay if they fall ill, " he said.
Mr Alexander said around 100, 000 employees - mostly teachers, nurses and oil and gas workers - were believed to be paid through offshore payroll services set up in tax havens such as Jersey and could be ineligible for statutory sick pay, but completely unaware of that status.
City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is prepared to back a deal on stalled sick-pay legislation that would require New York City businesses with 20 or more employees to provide five paid sick days beginning next year, according to the lead sponsor of the bill.
On the sick-pay bill, Mr. Bloomberg said the city will review whether it can file any legal challenges to stop the legislation.
Public Advocate Bill de Blasio, a rival for the Democratic mayoral nomination, has made the sick-pay issue a cornerstone of his campaign.
For Ms. Quinn, the Democratic frontrunner in this year's race for mayor, anger over her stance on the sick-pay legislation has become a flashpoint on the campaign trail.
But the government seems at last to have heeded the gospel of deregulation: shops can open longer, and the worst features of the over-generous sick-pay system have been abolished.
But within days, advocates of a bill to require city employers to provide workers with paid sick days bombarded Ms. Sarandon with information on the sick-pay issue, prompting her to tweet that she would look into the matter.
They deny our claims, drop us when we're sick, and pay their CEOs' huge bonuses.
She said she had been off sick on full pay for the first six months of her illness, and it was then cut to half-pay for a further three months.
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Added to existing laws requiring overtime pay, sick leave and paid holidays, this makes a reasonable package.
On the other hand, is it really a problem that sick people have to pay more for insurance than healthy people?
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More and more Americans pay their premiums, only to discover that their insurance company has dropped their coverage when they get sick, or won't pay the full cost of care.
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