[BenLurkin]

Out of control government is out of control.

[Buckeye McFrog]

If you have a small business with a handful of employees you quite literally can not afford for one of them to take twelve weeks off. It will bankrupt you as surely as a COVID lockdown will.

[WKUHilltopper]

These citizens are having the noose put around their very own necks and they applaud their demise? Tyrannical government on the loose.

[Wuli]

How to further hurt small businesses already hurt by the lock downs. Unless the Dims plan to push the costs off on the taxpayers.

[Da Coyote]

CA asking the rest of us to pay for their sewer level management in three, two one.....

[freedumb2003]

If California does this those millions will not have jobs to return to.

[Seruzawa]

Millions of clueless fools will blame their “evil” bosses for laying them off. They will vote again for demonRATs.

[fireman15]

Another unfunded mandate forcing businesses to leave the state.

[mewzilla]

https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1383

Oy vey.

[a fool in paradise]

Can you collect 70% of your pay scale for not working 8 weeks as an actor/actress in a movie (which may only have a 6 week shooting schedule)?

[preacher]

l8r

[T.B. Yoits]

California first shut down the gig economy of independent contractors in preparation of this step to prevent small businesses from hiring independent contractors instead of employees.

This is a de facto state takeover of all businesses just like Communist China. Every state legislator signing off on this needs to be charged, starting with fraudulent use of taxpayer's money.

[sickoflibs]

Am I missing something?
The paid leave was paid for by an insurance fund before this bill.

What in the new bill stops the employer from laying off the employee AFTER the 12 weeks that they take off?

[Jim Robinson]

Hey, I’d like some of that family leave assistance. Maybe the state can provide some funds to help me and my family leave California?

[ridesthemiles]

OVER 65% of the employees in Calif are working for ‘small businesses’. Per Calif data.

[caseinpoint]

There goes the job market for young, straight women.

[ridesthemiles]

OVER 65% of the employees in Calif are working for ‘small businesses’. Per Calif data.

There are damn few small businesses that can afford this kind of expense.

When I was a kid on the farm in Wisconsin, the next door neighbor was out on the tractor—doing what she usually did in springtime— she started having labor pains. They took her off that tractor at about 11:30 AM.

It was a 45 min drive to hospital.

She was back on tractor the next morning & oldest child of 5 was taking care of new baby.

I am NOT kidding

[NormsRevenge]

Those aren’t politicians..

They are small business destroyers masquerading as your best hope for the future..

The Dem Gubs haven’t wrecked enough yet with misguided policies and now this?

[Pajamajan]

On the plus side (if we can call it that), this will probably finish off what was once a beautiful, prosperous state.

Keep voting Democrat.

[Vaduz]

They can leave but only get paid with food stamps.