Posted on 04/28/2011 6:47:32 PM PDT by matt04
HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut is one step closer to becoming the first state in the country requiring companies to provide sick leave to its workers. On Wednesday, those without paid sick days will rally and call for a change.
Rep. Rosa DeLauro will be in attendance at the rally in West Haven, calling for mandatory paid sick leave, and while she intends to submit a bill on the federal level, in Connecticut it's been a hot topic at the Capitol for a number of years.
The difference now is that there is a governor that supports it.
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Supporters said it's a public health issue, and that people shouldn't be working when sick because they're afraid to stay home and lose money. But opponents said the proposal is anti-business, placing a burden on companies that could cost jobs.
Now businesses who said the bill is anti-business feel that some companies might purposely keep their staffing levels below 50 on order to avoid having to offer the paid sick leave.
(Excerpt) Read more at wfsb.com ...
Excellent news!! More liberal states committing suicide. Good for the red states. They will keep gaining Congressional seats census after census.
We’re open for business here in Texas...and we’re right-to-work.
I don’t care who pays for it, good workers need at least 12 paid sick days a year, 3-4 weeks vacation, 12 holiday days, a 40 hr week and full retirement at 55 along with fully paid medical for life. /s
As a masshole , I can truly say...Ya voted for DICK Blumenthal. Ct is about to become the poster child for why everyone FLEES New England, behind MA VT and ME.
The little Rhodies are the only ones who stay and play, the entire state has very little private sector work. Something like 84% of the workforce work for the state.
They never go anywhere... til the cash runs out, hasn’t happened yet.
Is this the United States of free America or did the communist Russian Politburo take over while I have been in Afghanistan?
Who is John Galt?
Businesses will be fleeing Connecticut by the score. DeLauro is a big Communist Party supporter.
Comrade Rosa DeLauro really missed her true calling in life.
She would have made the perfect People's Commisar of a Soviet Gulag prison camp...
Beck is leaving CT, too.
Isn't she the thing that let Rahm stay in her house rent free (without taxes paid)?
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