Sentences with phrase «paid sick leave legislation»

The NYC Council will hold a long - awaited vote on paid sick leave legislation at 1:30 p.m., Council chambers, City Hall, Manhattan.

At the LGBT mayoral forum on Wednesday, City Council Speaker Christine Quinn received a strong response, of both cheers and jeers, to her answer on the question of paid sick leave legislation.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Little more than a week after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told an audience of hundreds at an LGBT Democratic mayoral forum that she was not in favor of moving forward now on pending paid sick leave legislation, she will announce support for a modified bill at a City Hall press -LSB-...]

De Blasio's proposal would expand paid sick leave legislation orchestrated by former Speaker Christine Quinn, passed last year, over the veto of Mayor Michael Bloomberg.

WFP deputy director Bill Lipton termed the compromise bill «strong paid sick leave legislation.»

WASHINGTON HEIGHTS — City Council Speaker Christine Quinn received a fresh round of criticism over her opposition to paid sick leave legislation at a mayoral debate Thursday night in Washington Heights.

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- As the flu epidemic pounds the Tri-State Area, New York City Public Advocate Bill de Blasio is calling for the immediate passage of paid sick leave legislation that is now stalled in the City Council.

BY PAUL SCHINDLER Scarcely a week after City Council Speaker Christine Quinn told an audience of hundreds at an LGBT Democratic mayoral forum that she did not favor moving forward now on pending paid sick leave legislation, she announced a compromise measure to do just that at a March 29 City Hall press conference.

Cynthia Nixon, the «Sex and the City» star who married her longtime partner Christine Marinon last year, was on hand at the Park Slope campaign roll - out to say that the speaker's opposition to paid sick leave legislation — which would require most private employers in the city to provide between five and nine days off a year for illness — trumped any allegiance she might have to «identity politics.»

The first official bill presented to the council during Wednesday's session was the introduction, at the request of Mayor Bill de Blasio and carried in the council by Manhattan Councilwoman Margaret Chin, of a significant expansion of the city's paid sick leave legislation.