Rubio sounds like a democrat here. All this does is encourage low wage workers to pop out kids with paid leave and then paid daycare to follow.
IF a couple ‘suffers from economic insecurity’, as Rubio calls it, then they should have more restraint about ‘adding to their family’ until they are more stable economically.
Expecting others to pay for their ‘family leave’ time is just plain wrong. Adding that financial burden to your employer could be putting that business owner into the financial setting of him or her NOT being able to afford to have their kids.
There’s a thought-—a woman owning & running a company gets pregnant-—WHO pays for her family leave?
Hard enough to own a business anywhere in the world. Such an owner should not have to try & budget way into the future to cover paying for an employee who isn’t there for a fair chunk of time.
You want to have a kid? So be it. But DO NOT expect any business owner to pay for it.
Ultimately, the customer pays for those costs....but the owner is crippled with one staff member being gone.
IF I hve 10 employees & 1 or 2 of them get pregnant, and take family leave, then am I over staffed to begin with? Can I run the company without them?
I would be seriously thinking about restructuring & downsizing.......with older persons beyond child bearing years....