Posted by
Katy Grimes on Thursday, May 29, 2008 5:54:53 PM
How would you like 9 paid sick days each year, 1 to 2 weeks of vacation, and 9 paid holidays?
The California state Assembly just approved the bill that would to require employers to provide 9 paid days of sick leave for every worker.
As an employer of more than 50 employees, we already offer paid vacations, 3 "floating days," 9 paid holidays and subsidized health insurance. Forcing us to add more paid sick days is nothing more than giving every employee a raise.
Which means that there will probably be no raises this next year as we are already operating without a profit.
From The Sacramento Bee: Assemblywoman Fiona Ma, D-San Francisco, said her Assembly Bill 2716 would protect more than 5 million Californians – about a third of the work force – who are forced to choose between working while sick or losing pay.
"(It's) a win-win for workers and employers alike and is an important part of maintaining a healthy economy here in California," Ma said.
When employers offer paid sick days, employee morale is better, turnover is less, and health care costs decrease, Ma said.
Really? Does Fiona Ma employee workers? Does she know this first hand? No. Ms. Ma has only worked in politics - first for the esteemed John Burton, then as a San Francisco Supervisor, and now an Assembly woman, annointed by Fabian Nunez as Assembly Majority Whip.
She's been embroiled in scandals: Norman Hsu helped finance her assembly race, and has been embroiled in scandal with known Triad bad-guy Raymond Kwok Chow.
Bottom line: Fiona Ma is a San Francisco socialist who will continue to force employers, who she obviously sees as expendable, to pay out more and more to employees, for not showing up. California already has paid sick leave, funded through the EDD.
Employees are being gifted ridiculous time off days. Employers, especially small private sector employers, cannot operate with employees gone. We do not have layers of people all doing the same job the way the State does. When one of our employees is gone, the work does not get done, or other employees have to cover, sacrificing much of their own work.
As long as the California legislature continues to sell votes to the masses, we will move closer and closer to socialism. And slip firther and further away from individuality and personal responsibility, while penalizing the very employers who go out on a limb, take all of the risks of owning a business and who hire the employees. Any profit that most small businesses once realized, are gone in the way of taxes, regulations, fees, workers health and comp insurance and absurd lawsuits.
Employers will be shutting doors rather than continue to pay out more than 65% of all sales to the government in one form or another.