Posted on 01/10/2019 8:50:06 AM PST by lowbridge
Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a plan guaranteeing paid time off for workers in the city.
The plan would require private employers with five or more employees to offer 10 annual days of personal paid time, which can be used for any purpose, including vacation and religious observances.
More than 500,000 full-time and part-time employees currently have no paid time off.
If the plan is approved, New York City would be the first city in the nation to mandate paid personal time off for workers.
“Workers across the nation have been working too hard without enough time to rest and recharge or enough time for family and important life events. Every other major nation recognizes the necessity of Paid Personal Time. We as a country must get there, and New York City will lead the way," de Blasio said.
"To be the fairest big city in America, New Yorkers can't be forced to choose between bringing home a paycheck and taking time off to just disconnect or spend time with loved ones – that choice ends with Paid Personal Time. I look forward to working with Council Speaker Corey Johnson and the rest of City Council on this important piece of legislation.”
The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not mandate paid time off, including paid holidays.
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SEnd the bill to DeBLASIO!
The great irony of Marxist De Blasio is that he only has the ability to manage his socialist programs because he has power in the city that is the crony-capitalist center of world trading in US dollars and debt. And those top 0.1% Uber-rich in that city pay the vast majority of his required taxes.
Socialism is always and everywhere about cronyism
Man, how f-ing stupid can he be? While existing companies may stay in NYC even with such a law, he’s going to have a hell of a time finding any new businesses willing to locate in NYC. Just ask Seattle how many new businesses have started up since their new minimum wage went into effect.
The United States is the only industrialized nation that does not mandate [fill in the blank].
IMO that has become a mantra amongst Millenials. It’s why they reject American Exceptionalism. Because “the greatest country on Earth should be able to give me “X”.”
So move your company “headquarters outside the city.
After all, de Blasio is a french name right?
It’s so much fun watching the Socialist in New York City try to out-socialist the socialist in California.
What’s the Californian going to come up with?
Free surfboards?
So small businesses will be laying off that fifth employee. Unintended consequences come back to bite them.
This kind of SH just pisses me off.
And in local NY State news always Cuomo assaulting more of my freedoms.
There is a fly over country in New York ya’ll should know.
I live upstate very Conservative area.
My husband explained one building can wipe out the votes in our little town.
To be a worker - a business needs to exist and needs to want to hire you.
Fixed it.
ML/NJ
MOVE to FLORIDA!
My son in law is a Union Plumber (Chicago).
No paid vacation.
No paid sick days.
No paid holidays.
He says they call it “8 for 8”, eight hours pay for eight hours work. Has that sticker on his hardhat.
His given name was Warren Wilhelm Jr.
Seig Heil!
ML/NJ
Buying his miserable Marxist survival....
The scary thing is NY is so bad people flee to New Jersey for relief. Of course now they discovered they can live high in the hog in Bucks County, PA, and keep their destructive voting habits. It never ends.
What's wrong with that? It has been my preferred compensation arrangement now since 1980. (No time and a half for me either.)
ML/NJ
He’s not guaranteeing it. He’s forcing employers to pay for it.
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