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Mayor Bill de Blasio Announces Major Expansion of Paid Sick Leave In New York City
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42:27Now PlayingMayor pledges 'one city' where everyone rises together, Speaker Mark-Viverito and Council Members pledge to move aggressively on legislation.
500,000 more New Yorkers to secure the right to paid sick leave.
Read the complete press release here
Mayor Bill de Blasio today announced a sweeping expansion of paid sick leave, pledging it would be the first in a series of reforms to lift up hardworking New Yorkers and forge one city where everyone rises together. The Mayor put forward new legislation that will expand the right to paid sick leave to approximately 500,000 more New Yorkers -- 200,000 of whom do not currently have paid sick days. City Council Speaker Melissa Mark-Viverito, joined by dozens of Council Members, promised to move quickly to bring the legislation to the Council floor and see it passed into law.
The expanded paid sick leave legislation will:
• Extend the right to paid sick leave to all workers at businesses with five or more employees, encompassing those left out of the current legislation that applies to businesses of 15 or more workers. That will cover an additional 355,000 New Yorkers -- more than 200,000 of whom we know currently do not receive paid sick leave.
• Eliminate the phase-in, which would have delayed coverage to workers at businesses between 15 and 20 workers. This means 140,000 people who would have waited until mid-2015 under the existing bill will have coverage this April. Eighty-five thousand of those workers do not currently have a single paid sick day.
• Remove exemptions for the manufacturing sector, extending paid sick leave coverage to 76,000 workers, half of whom don't currently have any paid sick days.
• Add grandparents, grandchildren and siblings to the definition of family members workers can legally care for using paid sick time.
• Eliminate the economic trigger that could have delayed implementation of paid sick leave based on certain economic benchmarks.
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