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May 27, 2011

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Connecticut to Become First State With Paid Sick Leave Law

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The Connecticut Senate this week passed—and the governor is expected to sign—legislation mandating five annual days of sick leave for "service workers," which is an extremely and confusing category according to legal experts who have examined the wording of the law. Interestingly, the bill exempts the YMCA and all manufacturers, but requires employers to determine on their...

March 31, 2011

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Milwaukee Sick Leave Law Back On After Court Ruling

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In November 2008 voters in Milwaukee, Wisc., approved a landmark paid sick leave initiative for employees working within the city. A subsequent legal challenge by a local business association got the measure ruled unconstitutional on technical law-writing grounds. Then, just a week ago the Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed the original court decision, placing the law back on the books. The ca...

January 15, 2010

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Maine Floats Paid Sick Leave Law, Businesses Recoil

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First Congress proposed a paid sick leave policy for all the nation's businesses, but that initiative seems to have stalled behind some minor issues like health care reform and carbon transfers. Now Maine is getting into the act, and the proposal has state businesspeople up in arms, especially those who run small businesses. The bill was introduced by State Senate President Elizabeth Mitchell, ...

February 16, 2009

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Mandatory Sick Leave an Employer Burden?

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Businesses in Milwaukee are fighting a referendum that mandates up to nine days of paid sick leave for all employees working within the city. Voters overwhelmingly approved the referendum this past November, but last week a coalition of business owners got a court to slap a restraining order on its implementation. The measure will be debated in the court in detail beginning in May. Meanwhile, ...

December 19, 2008

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Paid Sick Leave: The Next Mandate?

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President-elect Obama campaigned on a pledge to mandate paid sick leave at all places of work. Here's how the president-elect's Web site (Change.Gov) explained this: Half of all private sector workers have no paid sick days and the problem is worse for employees in low-paying jobs, where less than a quarter receive any paid sick days. Barack Obama and Joe Biden will require that employers prov...

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