Don’t like the idea, but it is unfortunate there are many workers out there who literally get zero sick or vacation time depending on the fields they work in....
But, not government’s job to fix it.
Obamacare should cover it! AT LEAST 4 weeks paid time off each year for ‘mental health’
yes, another wonderful idea that will cause even more unemployment than Obama and Pelosi have already given us
This will be great for female employment numbers! Do I need a sarc tag?
I think I’ve figured out what the primary goal of a liberal politician is.
To get the private sector and/or the taxpayer to pay for something that they want to “give” to people they want to vote for them.
They don’t seem to do anything else.
Just as with constitutionally indefensible Obamacare, Pelosi is again trying to interfere with 10th Amendment protected state powers.
One reason I went to school was to get a job which had better benefits.
Funny how that works.
I don't take much vacation, so my accruals go over the 480 cap fairly often. I try to get home for my wedding anniversary and Christmas. That blows off 80 hours. I ended up with a 40 hour payout last December.
Doesn’t Europe pretty much take off a whole month in the summer? We see how well that works, why stop at a week?
They won't be in business for long.
I have a question for Nancy: How many of your Pacific island based Star-Kist employees have paid sick leave?
Yeah, I thought so.
Now, it's been a few years, so it's time to add the paid part in. If they can't get it passed through Congress, they go to their two prong approach: Start hitting the state legislatures where they have the best chances of pushing it through, and also start going through the courts, looking for a sympathetic judge who will, at a minimum, force it to be considered.
After they get a few states to pass it, they'll use them as examples as to how it should be national (not fair for the people of one state to have paid sick leave and neighbor states not!!).
It's how politics work. Repubs should try it.
Because the jobs recovery isn’t slow enough already.
City of Portland, OREGON has done this already...last month
Once again Nance drank too much coffee, got tweaked and crammed her head up her fundament.
I can see employers complying with this by reducing paid vacation time and/or paid holidays enough to make up for the mandatory paid sick time. This is not something the government should be dictating. At smaller businesses and/or those with mostly part-time employees, this could become very expensive to the employer. And you would have people taking their entire seven days or hourly equivalents, whether they are sick or not, which will just raise the cost of everything to the consumer, reducing sales, etc.
FMLA did nothing but open an avenue for abuse by the demographics who think they are "owed". Yes, there are some who use FMLA as it's meant, but most waste it away and put additional hardship on employers.