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Keep New York Businesses Alive Oppose 800A
Seeing vacant storefront after vacant storefront in neighborhoods all across New York City should be enough to understand that small businesses are struggling. Even in a strong economy, small businesses are facing significant challenges due to high rents, skyrocketing property taxes, and the recent wave of small business regulations, including new minimum wage increases, paid sick leave requirements, fines, taxes, healthcare costs, etc.
Adding 2 weeks paid vacation is one more unfunded mandate that New York’s small businesses can’t afford. This could cost my business tens of thousands of dollars a year, and will pose a major financial burden. We need lawmakers like you to help businesses like mine, not create policies that cripple them.
I strongly urge you to OPPOSE Int 800A.
Keep Businesses in Your District
I constantly hear people talk about how important small business is to NYC. However, with legislation like Int 800A, it seems that government is going out of its way to choke small businesses like mine, which is located in your district, out of existence. That’s why I’m writing to ask that you OPPOSE Int 800A, which mandates 2 weeks of paid vacation for all employees. My employees work hard and they absolutely deserve paid vacation, but when it comes to dollars and cents, my business just can’t afford another mandate. So, if paid vacation is such a priority for the City, how will the City help my business so that we can provide it? Please DO NOT support Int 800A and instead support incentives that will help my business stay open and grow.
800A Hurts My Small Business
I’m writing to you as a small business owner in your district urging you to OPPOSE Int 800A, which would require that I give 2 weeks of paid vacation to all employees, in addition to the 1 week of paid leave already required by law. This policy is well-intentioned, but our elected representatives are making it impossible to run a small business with these constant mandates. There are already enough vacant storefronts around the city and workers who are having their hours and jobs cut. Please DO NOT support Int 800A and make it even harder to keep my doors open and keep New Yorkers employed.
800A is a Financial Burden
Please OPPOSE Int 800A. As a small business owner in your district, I operate on extremely thin margins. The proposed law mandating that I pay employees an additional 2 weeks of paid vacation a year would pose a significant financial burden on my business. All of these 100% employer-funded mandates, one after another, are too much for local businesses to afford and manage. Please OPPOSE Int 800A and support small businesses and jobs.
Save Businesses in New York
As a small business owner, I am asking you to OPPOSE Int 800A because it will only make it more challenging to run a small business in your district, and drive up the cost of living for everyday New Yorkers. I urge you to support small businesses and the jobs they create by OPPOSING Int 800A. Please do not pose another “positive sounding” mandate on my business that will have negative consequences for us, and then ask what you can do to save our city’s dying small businesses.