CT News Junkie has the story:
Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi…said paid sick leave is a tough issue.
“I believe yes, people do deserve the right to have paid sick leave,” he said. “If we want paid sick leave for people we need to sit down and figure out a way to fund it. We need to work with the private sector to come up with a funding mechanism. We cannot continually push mandates like this on the private sector or municipalities.
He wants the government to pay for the sick leave? If we require employers with 50 or more employees to offer paid sick leave? I an earlier post I posed the question “Is Rudy Marconi a Democrat?” Now I have to wonder if he’s a mainstream politician at all.
No one else has remotely suggested that the government should fund paid sick leave, which is 1) a public health issue, and 2) in the employer’s own interest. Granting a few extra pay-days to mostly low wage people (including wait people who are paid under the minimum wage) is by no means a major burden for larger companies.
