Oppose Paid Sick Leave Mandates for Small Employers!
Tell your lawmakers the paid sick leave bill goes too far!
SB 1178 would expand the state’s paid sick leave mandate and impose it on the state’s smallest employers.
Currently, businesses with 50 or more employees are required to provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave each year to their service workers - a group of specified job titles.
SB 1178 changes that by:
- Requiring ALL employers provide up to 40 hours of leave to ALL employees
- Speeds up the rate employees accrue the leave
- Creates perpetual accounting liabilities by allowing employees to carry up to 40 hours of leave each year
The time to tell lawmakers to stop targeting small businesses with new mandates is now! The bill has already passed the Senate and is awaiting final action in the House. We need just a few more lawmakers to tell their leaders this bill goes too far!
If enacted, small businesses should expect more workplace shortages, additional requirements related to tracking employee leave accrual and usage, and more financial penalties for mistakes in record keeping.
Business advocates attempted to negotiate to make the bill better in the Senate, but our efforts were rebuked. Show your lawmakers that you are paying attention to efforts to target the state’s smallest businesses and that this mandate should not apply to businesses with only a few employees!
Oppose Paid Sick Leave Mandates for Small Employers!
Tell your lawmakers the paid sick leave bill goes too far!
SB 1178 would expand the state’s paid sick leave mandate and impose it on the state’s smallest employers.
Currently, businesses with 50 or more employees are required to provide up to 40 hours of paid sick leave each year to their service workers - a group of specified job titles.
SB 1178 changes that by:
- Requiring ALL employers provide up to 40 hours of leave to ALL employees
- Speeds up the rate employees accrue the leave
- Creates perpetual accounting liabilities by allowing employees to carry up to 40 hours of leave each year
The time to tell lawmakers to stop targeting small businesses with new mandates is now! The bill has already passed the Senate and is awaiting final action in the House. We need just a few more lawmakers to tell their leaders this bill goes too far!
If enacted, small businesses should expect more workplace shortages, additional requirements related to tracking employee leave accrual and usage, and more financial penalties for mistakes in record keeping.
Business advocates attempted to negotiate to make the bill better in the Senate, but our efforts were rebuked. Show your lawmakers that you are paying attention to efforts to target the state’s smallest businesses and that this mandate should not apply to businesses with only a few employees!