[SeminoleCounty]

Orlando/Orange County tried to push a mandatory sick pay ordnance thru...and it got defeated.

It spooked the rest of the state to pass a law, just signed by the governor, to prohibit cities/counties from passing mandatory sick leave laws

Although it would be great if all businesses could provide sick time, unicorns, and free ice cream, but a mandated plan would kill a lot of businesses

[Pollster1]

I shut down my business for other political reasons, but this would have driven me out of NYC if I operated there. Employees who show up should make more than those who don’t. As an employer, I have the right to decide whether the employee with cancer or whose wife has heart bypass surgery should be paid when not working (my decision was ‘yes’, even for sick days beyond those in the contract), and whether the employee who is “sick” on Fridays, especially before 3-day weekends should be paid (my decision was ‘yes’, in accordance with the contract, but then move them out of their jobs for totally unrelated reasons).

[thefactor]

Bus boys and bicycle delivery men will now have five free days to recover from the tequila flu. Or the Corona shakes.

[Above My Pay Grade]

Most companies already give paid sick leave. The few that don’t and really don’t want can simply cut wages by 2% or delay pay increases to make up the difference. This leftist, feel good legislation will only cause administrative nightmares and compliance costs for all companies, most of which are already giving paid sick leave.

[traditional1]

Next on the Agenda: Maternity Leave for “married” sex deviates.......

[E. Pluribus Unum]

The ultimate goal of the Communists is to destroy all small businesses.

Nobody should be allowed to be in business who is not a crony-capitalist member of the big-government/big-corporate criminal complex.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Will be national law within five years. Generation Text knows the Euros have this and they’re quite jealous.

[Zhang Fei]

This is fairly standard legislation around the world, including countries not known for left-wing economic policies:

At least 145 countries provide paid sick days for short- or long-term illnesses, with 127 providing a week or more annually. 98 countries guarantee one month or more of paid sick days.^[43] Many high-income economies require employers to provide paid sick days upwards of 10 days, including: Japan, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, and Singapore.