New York, NY – Bill de Blasio is signing his first bill into law as New York City mayor.
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De Blasio, a Democrat who took office in January, approved new paid sick leave legislation on Thursday.
The measure expands the right of paid sick leave to approximately a half million New Yorkers.
The law mandates that employers whose businesses have five or more employees grant their staff paid sick days.
It expands a previous bill which only applied to businesses that had more than 15 workers.
De Blasio signed the bill during an elaborate ceremony at a Brooklyn ice cream manufacturer.
The mayor said the law is “the first of many steps” his administration will undertake to fight the city’s rising income inequality.
The law goes into effect on April 1.
Most ridiculous law in the world.
All my employees just lost a week of paid vacation going forward to make up for this.
Well I’ll fire 2 workers and stay with four so I want fall into this new law
I’m glad I don’t work for any of the first few folks who left comments! I am lucky enough to work for a company who provide unlimited days off, and in all the years in business, only one person has abused it. It pays in the long run with a better workforce. Working your employees like dogs doesn’t produce productive workers.
98765, MrSmith and Rafuel…you are sterling examples of how insensitive Yidden can be to the legitimate needs of people despite having, presumably, a Torah education.
It was self-interested people like you who opposed granting employees the right to time off for Shabbos…and it was and remains proud Liberal Democrats, such as myself, who support the interests of the little guy, whether against interests that would deny us the time to observe Shabbos…or people such as yourselves who would deny minimum paid sick leave to their employees.
If you are interested in seeing how truly neanderthal are your views…google sick leave and you look for yourselves how the rest of the developed world deals with this issue.
Reading the comments from these GREEDY employers, NO WONDER there is such much anti-Semitism with Yidden like you around. R’L
If giving 5 days of sick days a year will shut you down, then you are lousy business people to begin with!
Waiting to see the rules within the law. Can an employee take all entitled days at once? Or can the employer say you can get one paid day per 60 days? And the other days absent are without pay.