Sick Leave Initiative Uses Listeria Example

DENVER (AP) - Backers of an initiative that would let private employees and city workers earn up to 72 hours of paid sick days a year are using the deadly listeria outbreak to promote their cause.

A mailer by Campaign for a Healthy Denver features a photo of cantaloupe next to a dish of pasta suggesting people can make food safer by making sure workers handling food are healthy.

According to the Denver Post, opponents to the measure that will appear on Denver's Nov. 1 ballot say the mailing is in poor taste.

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