She said the bill shows the doubled sick leave would not be mandatory for businesses for another two years.
Ansell-Bridges said more urgency is needed and that recent opinion polls show the public supports this.
More than 1200 people responded to an online poll by the CTU from 3-6 January this year about the impact of Covid-19 on people's working life.
Overwhelmingly, 94 percent of people supported the government's planned increase in sick leave from five to 10 days.
The Government's decision to double minimum sick leave will cost a billion dollars a year, nearly 1 per cent of the country's annual wage bill, and will be borne by employers, according to Ministry of Business Innovation and Employment estimates.
The increase from a minimum of five to 10 days of annual sick leave, for which a bill was introduced in December, is the second and by far the most expensive of Labour's three main labour-market policy changes promised in the 2020 election.
The extra sick leave is estimated to cost more than the minimum wage increase and the new Matariki holiday combined.
A 5.8 per cent rise in the minimum wage is scheduled for April 1; the sick leave increase is expected to come into effect in the second half of 2021; and Labour promised a new public holiday at Matariki from 2022.
About half of New Zealand employers currently give their staff the statutory minimum.