Posted on 04/06/2016 2:03:58 AM PDT by Olog-hai
In approving a novel paid parental leave policy, San Francisco officials buttressed their efforts to make life a little more affordable for workers who eke out a living in one of the most expensive cities in the country.
Mayor Ed Lee is expected to sign legislation approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors that requires employers to provide fully paid six-week leaves for new mothers and fathers. Currently, the state of California pays about 55 percent of a worker’s salary when they take leave, which advocates say is not enough for working families.
The San Francisco measure requires employers with at least 20 employees to make up the rest. […]
Paid parental leave is the latest proposal to come from a city that has led the country on employee protections even as the cost of living soars. …
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San Francisco steals money from business owners to pay people to not work.
In approving a novel paid parental leave policy, San Francisco officials buttressed their efforts to make life a little more affordable... Mayor Ed Lee is expected to sign legislation approved Tuesday by the Board of Supervisors that requires employers to provide fully paid six-week leaves for new mothers and fathers. Currently, the state of California pays about 55 percent of a worker's salary... The San Francisco measure requires employers with at least 20 employees to make up the rest. […]The proliferation of unemployment and employers with only 19 or fewer employees puzzles analysts.
One more nail in the economy of California.
On another note, after the most rain California has had in years, with reservoirs being empty to prepare for the snow runoff, they announced that the California Central valley will only receive 5% of their requested water allowance.
For reason only known to the power brokers in Sacramento they want to kill the cash cow which is food production.
Only in liberal La La land (and the AP) is this seen as a way to "make life a little more affordable for workers".
Sorry. Every time the government seizes control over pay and prices it leads to failure. Yet they keep doing it, over and over again.
That’s what they mean by “making life affordable in a costly city.” Reducing taxes, penalties, fees and the size and scope of city government is the farthest thing from their feeble minds. The solution to them is always “make the those rich bastard business owners pay for our votes.”
In SF I’m guessing it’s for anybody that claims to be whatever. That could be a ‘transgendered’ unaltered male claiming he/she’s having sympathy natal feelings for someone he/she/it knows with a real live baby, or reasonable facsimile.
>Sorry. Every time the government seizes control over pay and prices it leads to failure. Yet they keep doing it, over and over again.
Because the People of production, the golden goose if you will, haven’t decided enough is enough.
Course, some States (see MD, or even France recently) never learn...the ‘$$ flight’, yet they continue on the same path (see point 1 above)
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