Last year, voters from Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska were asked if they wanted to provide employers to provide their workers with salaried sick leave. He said yes to the overwhelming majority.
Now some of these states have tried to return the benefits, citing business concerns about spending.
The efforts indicate the latest attempt by the Assembly to change the voters -backed laws they represent. For example, in February, Michigan reviewed a paid sick leave law seven years ago, delaying the date when small businesses have to be complied with and allowing new employees long before being eligible.
Although some voters are angry, some lawmakers say that the measures that urban workers had developed have ignored the facts of running a business.
Restaurant owner Tim Hart, who hires about two dozen workers at his stackhouse in Hanbal, Missouri, said the salaried sick leave has doubled financial loss as he has to pay one person and another to fill the house.
“When it comes to action, we cannot survive too much,” Heart said, which has called on the state Senate to stop the law.
The sick leave rules will begin in Missouri on Thursday, July 1st in Alaska and on October 1 in Nebraska.
McDonald’s restaurant activist Richard Acry is among those who are standing to benefit. He signed a petition in which the move was put on the Missouri belt and recently traveled to Kansas City to the capital of the state to make the law a law for lawmakers.
In 40 years on a job, Akar never got a sick leave – even when he was struggling with kidney stones.
“I have just taken some pain medications and went to work anyway and just worked in the past,” said Akar. “It would be nice to stay at home.”
Low wages workers are less likely to pay sick leave
Many employers have been demanded for the federal law to provide for personal or family medical issues for up to 12 weeks without any compensation. But there is no federal mandate to pay sick days.
According to the labor department, however, 79 % of the private sector employees received a sick leave last year. Part -time workers were less likely to benefit from their full -time counterparts. And in the lower quarter of the income earners, only 58 % of employees received a sick leave, while 94 % is in the top quarter.
Although it is still discretion for many employers, the number of states has been mandatory for a sick leave as Connecticut enforced the first such law in 2012. Last year’s belt measures increased a total of 18 states and Columbia district. Within the illness, three additional states need a salary leave for any reason.
Many sick leave rules, including those in Alaska, Missouri and Nebraska, apply for any employer with at least one worker. But some states are exempt from small businesses, of which the cut offices are from five to 25 employees. The number of sick days annually varies.
Missouri’s legislator wants to become ‘less amazing’ for employers
On Tuesday, the state Supreme Court upheld the salaried sick leave law against the challenge of business groups. But efforts are underway to revise it.
In March, members of the Republican House legislated to cancel the need for a sick leave. It was then blocked by the Minority Democrats in the Senate. Therefore, the Republicans are emphasizing an alternative that will delay the law by the end of this year, exempt small businesses, and remove the ability to prosecute workers on alleged violations.
Republican State San Mike Burns Quetter, a small business owner, said that it intended to be “just slightly down on employers.”
Democratic lawmakers said that many workers already have difficulty.
“When there are people who are paying pay checks, they can really be behind them by getting a little job,” said Democratic State Sen Petty Lewis.
Nebraska’s senator warns ‘heavy overstoP’ by peers
The legislature presented by Republican lawmakers in Nebraska will create salaries for businessmen and businessmen with 14 and 15 -year -old employees, temporary and seasonal agricultural workers and 10 or less employees.
The legislation will also take away the eligibility of workers to prosecute those employers who retaliate against them for the use of paid sick leave.
Review supporters say their aim is to protect small businesses from high prices. Opponents say they are necessarily decreasing the law.
“We are talking about just the whole path of the ballot language.” Through this legislature, it is to say that we know better than those who voted for it, “John Kiannov said during a recent debate.
Alaska Labor Leader predicts’ long war ‘about voters’ wishes
In a bill by State Representative Justin Reforj, seasonal workers and businesses will be exempted from the need for a sick leave with less than 50 employees. This can eliminate Alaska’s summer tourists many catering.
Rafridge, a member of the Republican Minority of the House, said that small business owners should be able to choose whether to spend money on the benefits of sick leave or other steps to increase their business.
Alaska AFL-CIO President Joel Hall, which supported the belt measurement, will face doubts in the last weeks of this year’s meeting.
But, he said, “I believe it is the beginning of a long war to protect the wishes of voters from the wishes and the wishes of businessmen who do not want to pay a sick day.”
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Beck reported from Lincoln, Nebraska, and from Bohr, Alaska.
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