NYC Council debates paid sick leave, Philly Council set to take it on, again
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NYC Council debates paid sick leave, Philly Council set to take it on, again
Jan Ransom
As the flu season hits New York City a debate is raging in City Council there over a paid sick leave proposal.
Supporters and opponents rallied outside of City Hall Friday –a scene not much unlike that of Philadelphia’s City Council hearings nearly two years ago when Councilman Bill Greenlee and Council president Darrell Clarke were pushing for a similar measure.
Greenlee said the bill which Mayor Nutter vetoed will be making a comeback when Council returns Thursday. The bill would require businesses with 11 or more workers to allow employees to earn up to seven paid sick days a year and companies with 10 or fewer workers to offer four sick days.
Nutter and business leaders argued that the measure would lead to a decrease in jobs and would deter new businesses from coming to the city.
The debate will feel like déjà vu all over again, only this time Greenlee says he’s got the support he needs to get it through.
Moe, Larry and Curley ride again!
Jobs, taxes, nutty foolishness, whack on the head....holy mackerel!
Darrell created a "Jobs Commission" filled with people who know nothing about business;
Wilson dreams up a way to give anyone who hires anyone a city tax credit of $5,000 for each live body,
and now....
Bill chimes in with a "tax," by just another name, of the cost of one full weeks work for every employee for every business in town.
Is City Council a comedy or crazy or what?
Stupid is a word, if anyone else is at loss to describe the combined nuttiness of Council.
Are they trying as hard as they can to drive away all businesses that pay the taxes that pay their salaries?
— GAC- Give it all away. Its not your money, you only steal it. City council does it again. WHat a crew. Philly deserves More— rduexpress
- if city hall could just get the hell out of the way, the city would be a better place, not one of them has ever run their own business, and collectively they know zero about what it takes to grow and expand a business but they certaninly know how to kill them
— coolbreeze
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David Gambacorta spent a small eternity writing about cops, drug dealers and serial killers. Now he’s writing about power and politics – which sometimes reminds him of the old crime beat. He joined the Daily News in 2005. And yes, he knows you’re not quite sure how to pronounce his last name. E-mail tips to gambacd@phillynews.com
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Jan Ransom, a native New Yorker, joined the Daily News in 2010 after graduating from Howard University. She has since written about the difficulty of filing police complaints, tax deadbeats and life after violent home invasions. She joined the Daily News City Hall Bureau in 2011 and has plunged headfirst into reporting on administration budget battles and City Council shenanigans. E-mail tips to ransomj@phillynews.com
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Sean Collins Walsh is from Bucks County and went to Northwestern University. He joined the Daily News copy desk in 2012 and now covers the Nutter administration. Before that, he interned at papers including The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Seattle Times. E-mail tips to walshSE@phillynews.com
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