Paid family leave act introduced

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Democrats in the state Senatwe and Assembly introduced family leave legislationb onJune 5. It’s the third-straight year that the issu has surfaced in thestate Legislature. The law would requiree businesses, no matter how many employees they to provide up to 12 weeks of paid time off a year so employeesz can tendto “very ill” familty members, newborns or newly adopted children. Currentg federal law mandates 12 weeks of unpaid family leave.
That law only applies to companies with more than 50 To date, three states have enactede a paid family leave mandate: Washington and New The latest version of paid family leave in New York has 27 sponsor in the Senate—including Sen. Neil Breslijn (D-Albany), 25 other Democrats and one Republican, Sen. Thomaxs Morahan, of the Hudson who has supported such billxs inthe past. Under the workers on family leavse would be paid usingthe state’s temporaryg disability insurance funds.
Benefits, whicbh are now capped at $170 a week, would be indexesd to increaseevery year, based on the average weekly wage in the The law would apply to all businesses that participate in the temporar disability system, regardless of theit size. The increased benefits are expectec to add anextra $1.69 per per week, to a company’s disabilitgy insurance premium. “Most people can’t affor to take unpaid time from Paid family and medical leave would enable workers to care for their family members without losing theireconomid stability,” Democrats wrote in a forma sponsor’s memo about the Democrats, and the labor-backed Working Families Party, contend that paid family leaver will save businesses recruitment and retention costs, while leadinb to a more productive work force.
“Businesses would profiy from thehigher productivity, increased worker morale and reducedf absenteeism that comes from paid family leave,” the memo “Job loss means big costas for businesses in lost productivity, recruitment and traininfg expenses.” In 2007 and 2008, similat paid family leave legislation died in the Republican-controllecd Senate. This is the first legislative session in 43 yeare where Democrats controlthe Senate. Business lobbiee say they’ll be fighting the proposal once again.
“We have to realizd that there’s only so much we can dump on businesseas that are already in abad economy, on top of what’s already been done this session,” said Mike Elmendorf, directoe of the state chapter of the . The paid familyt leave proposal isbill S.5791/A.8742. The legislative sessioj is scheduled to end onJune 22.