Prompted by reports from many other Walmart employees across the country, the (NLC), a nonprofit organization that supports workers' rights, published a Tuesday bashing Walmart's sick leave policy, which they said 'gives workers demerits and deducts pay for staying home when they are sick or to care for a sick child.' The NLC claimed that demands on employees to work through illness positions Walmart stores to contribute to H1N1 influenza -- commonly called swine flu -- transmission in the coming flu season.