Not exact matches
Small
businesses that
pay their employees by the hour often have no
sick leave and personal
day policies.
Indeed, half of small
business owners support a law that would allow employees to earn paid sick days, according to a new study conducted by the Small Business M
business owners support a law that would allow employees to earn
paid sick days, according to a new study conducted by the Small
Business M
Business Majority.
Many
businesses initially opposed the first state
paid sick days law in Connecticut, yet within a few years a survey showed... that an overwhelming majority of
businesses reported only small or no effects on their bottom line, and three - quarters now report being supportive of the new policy.
In survey research,
businesses also directly report that they do not change their hiring and hours policies in response to
paid sick days requirements.
A survey of New York City employers after implementation of the city's
paid sick days law showed that more than 91 percent of respondents did not reduce hiring; 97 percent did not reduce hours; and 94 percent did not raise prices as a result of the law.26 In a similar study from Connecticut, which passed a statewide
paid sick days law in 2011, employers also reported no effects or modest effects to their bottom lines.27 And an audit of the District of Columbia's
paid sick leave law, effective in 2008, found that it did not discourage
business owners from basing their
businesses in the District, nor did it incentivize them to relocate their
businesses outside of Washington.28
Similarly,
sick days, 80 percent of low - wage workers can't earn a single
paid sick day, but we know that the cost of «presentism» is greater to
businesses than of having
sick days, so I expect that to pass in the next 10 years.
If approved, it would have required
businesses with 20 or more employees to provide workers with nine
paid sick days a year.
Across Midtown, the smallest of of the Big Apple's
businesses say they're getting ready for the City Council's proposed
paid -
sick - leave bill, which, according to a compromise announced by Council Speaker Christine Quinn last Thursday, would require companies of 15 or more employees to provide five
paid sick days for each full - time worker by October 2015.
Quinn has been under intense pressure to pass the legislation, which would require
businesses with 20 or more workers to give employees nine
paid sick days off a year.
The new legislation, being introduced to the Council by the mayor himself, will force
businesses with five or more employees to provide workers, both full and part - time, with up to five
paid sick days a year.
Smaller
businesses with less than than 20 workers will only be obligated to give five
days of
paid sick leave.
That legislation would require
businesses with four or more employees to give workers five
paid sick days per year.
Yesterday evening, Quinn's camp announced that the Council speaker had brokered a compromise on «
paid sick time» legislation, resulting in a bill that will require some New York City
businesses to provide a small number of
paid sick days to their employees.
The latest version of the bill would require
businesses with fewer than 20 employees to provide five
paid sick days a year, said supporters.
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Once applicants were selected for phone interviews the hiring manager asked them a series of questions such as during the Holiday season
business will grow so they'll need more hands on deck during that time, there is a good chance they won't have any vacation,
sick days... or
pay for that matter.