Sentences with phrase «sick leave law»

De Blasio, the city's first Democratic mayor in two decades, and Mark - Viverito have vowed to fight for more affordable housing and a stronger paid sick leave law.

San Francisco enacted a paid sick leave law in 2006, and Washington D.C. followed shortly thereafter.

By Sean Ryan Building Service Inc. will move about two miles west to Menomonee Falls if Milwaukee's sick leave law takes effect.

A new paid sick leave law could be on tap for Westchester County.

By Sean Ryan A state court of appeals will ask the Wisconsin Supreme Court to consider the case over Milwaukee's sick leave law.

The sick leave law, which the mayor signed in March, provides the agency with money to hire 17 people to implement.

«This will be the first city law that I will have the privilege to sign as mayor, and I could not be more honored that that law is the expanded paid sick leave law — so important to the people of this city,» de Blasio said.

Queens Councilwoman Julissa Ferreras - Copeland, who will introduce the amendment to the paid sick leave law, said the clarification was important because employers could possibly deny the leave the way the current law is written.

Implementing a paid sick leave law would protect public health and help companies retain workers, supporters say.

New York City adopted a paid sick leave law several years ago and now proponents are trying to marshal support for a similar measure in Albany County — which would extend a privilege enjoyed by state workers and lawmakers to the private sector, where part - time and service - industry workers are especially unlikely to have the same perk.

This afternoon Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a substantial expansion of the 2013 paid sick leave law.

Under a new bill introduced at the NYC Council, the Independent Budget Office would have to prepare annual reports tracking job numbers and wages at businesses impacted by the extended paid sick leave law and failure rates for small businesses.

New Jersey has now become the tenth state to enact a statewide mandatory paid sick leave law.

Airlines are suing Washington state to avoid complying with the mandatory paid sick leave law that took effect Jan. 1.

The NJ Legislature has passed a comprehensive and mandatory Paid Sick Leave law expected to be signed soon by Gov. Phil Murphy.

Paola Angel was working as a security guard in New York City when its paid sick leave law went into effect.

Paola Angel recalls that before New York City's paid sick leave law took effect, she had to choose between earning a day's pay and staying home with a sick child.

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

Congressional Democrats moved to rebrand issues like the minimum wage and sick leave laws as part of a «Women's Economic Agenda.»

Only seven states in the United States have mandatory paid sick leave laws; yet, 15 states have passed preemptive legislation prohibiting localities from passing sick leave.

Unlike other paid sick leave laws (such as Philadelphia's Sick Leave Ordinance), New Jersey's paid sick leave law applies to all private sector employers, regardless of size (with very limited exceptions for certain types of workers).

Not exact matches

Yet even as states and cities across the country pass laws guaranteeing paid sick days and paid family and medical leave, too many families still do not have access to these critical workplace standards.

Studies of the economic impact of existing laws sponsored by groups across the ideological spectrum have found that while the costs to employers of paid sick leave mandates tend to be low on average, they tend to be more significant in certain industries, like food services, where paid sick leave is less common and workers typically are younger.

The New Jersey Paid Sick Leave Act was signed into law today by Governor Phil Murphy and will go into effect on October 29, 2018.

Patrick Colford concludes by saying: «The New Brunswick Federation of Labour will be looking for political party's platforms to include commitments for improving labour laws so that all workers are entitled to paid sick leave, investing in public services to protect society's most vulnerable citizens and adopting pay equity legislation that covers the private sector.»

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In related news: a survey of full - time working mothers and mommy bloggers conducted by a thermometer maker found that when their children got sick, 33 % of moms pretended to be sick so they could stay home with their child, 62 % of them called on parents or in - laws for child care, 57 % of them took unpaid leave to care for their child, and a distressing 34 % of them took the kid to school or day care anyway — where they could infect your child.

The proposed bill, agreed to by the mayor and Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Vivertio but not yet introduced or passed in the council, will expand the size of businesses required to provide paid sick leave from 15 or more employees to 5 or more employees, accelerate it's applicability so that all covered businesses must comply by April 1, 2014 (businesses with 15 - 20 employees have until April 1, 2015 under the existing law), remove exemptions for manufacturing businesses and remove economic measurements that could have caused a delayed implementation and expand the range of family members that employees can care for during such paid sick leave.

(Factor in the cost of New York's new minimum - wage and sick - leave laws and upstate's status as an economic desert seems assured.)

There's NO law in NYS that says a state entity must do such and such by a certain date... unless somebody is out sick, somebody takes maternal leave, workers are too busy having a retirement party for a co-worker, it's somebody's birthday or the dog ate their homework.

The arguments against paid sick leave, as stated in the Capital Region Chamber's petition opposing Local Law «C» on behalf of its more than 2400 area businesses and organizations, include: the proposal will hurt our economy, reduce jobs, lower the county's sales tax revenue, and act as «an impediment to attracting, retaining and growing jobs.»

He has also expanded paid sick leave and the living wage law, altered the policy for making marijuana possession arrests and laid the groundwork for a municipal identification card designed to serve undocumented immigrants.

The proposed law also prohibits both the firing of an employee for taking paid sick leave and requiring the employee to find a replacement worker.

«The office will study and promote programs on worker protections, education and safety — and it will also enforce City laws like paid sick leave and transit benefits.»

From guaranteed paid sick leave to tougher gun control laws, from a higher minimum wage to a comparably smooth rollout of the Affordable Care Act, few governors have embraced President Barack Obama's liberal policies with the zeal of Gov. Dannel P. Malloy.

An antagonist of Mayor Michael Bloomberg and critic of Senator Kirsten Gillibrand's immigration record, she has already irked business interests by spearheading a law that requires businesses with five or more employees to give paid sick leave to their workers.

Almost a year after the expansion of the paid - sick - leave law, the de Blasio administration is forming an advisory panel of business leaders to report on its impact.

Under a new law that Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed on the 16th anniversary of 9/11 this year, municipalities can get reimbursed by the state for the money they spend on sick leave for any firefighters who assisted in the rescue efforts at ground zero.

Sean Ryan [email protected] A Milwaukee business group suing to overturn the city's sick - leave law takes little solace in a pending bill to establish similar federal rules.

The Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce argues Milwaukee's sick - leave law puts employers in the...

Sean Ryan [email protected] Both sides of the sick - leave debate are pressuring Milwaukee officials as they consider whether the city should join the appeal against a court decision rejecting the law.

«We want to create true paid sick leave and not simply have a political football,» Appelbaum said, arguing that proposals to raise the size threshold for companies that would be covered under the law — in a bow toward anxiety over the economy — from five to «75 or 100 don't accomplish anything.»

Meanwhile, Mark - Viverito and her members have been saddling firms with even more onerous requirements, from paid sick leave to whom they can hire, and backing ever - higher minimum wage laws.

«With your help, we'll send Bill de Blasio to City Hall, where he'll sign comprehensive Paid Sick Leave into law — and you'll be able to say you helped make it happen,» Hyers wrote.

De Blasio will also announce the department will create a new division for the recently formed Office of Labor Policy and Standards which will work on labor issues for workers in the city and help to enforce specific labor laws, such as paid sick leave and commuter benefits.

But of course let's hold out for the comprehensive version isn't the most galvanizing call to action, particularly if Quinn now has cover from many of the groups that were pushing hardest for a law requiring paid sick leave in the first place.

«This is partly due to collective - bargaining agreements, but also state laws that guarantee such benefits as paid sick days, extended medical leave, and maternity leave, which charters are not required to provide,» said Caputo - Pearl, head of United Teachers Los Angeles.

The presentation addressed a broad range of current employment law topics, including the dos and don'ts of hiring new employees, compensation for interns, and the new Sick - Leave Initiative and Parental Leave Act.

The scheduling of that new period of annual leave, corresponding to the duration of the overlap between the period of annual leave originally scheduled and the sick leave, was subject to the rules and procedures of national law which were applicable to the scheduling of workers» leave, taking into account the various interests involved, including overriding reasons relating to the interests of the undertaking.

There is currently no federal requirement for employers to provide paid sick leave, although some states like California may have local laws.