{"id":1402366,"date":"2022-03-27T06:44:50","date_gmt":"2022-03-27T10:44:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402366"},"modified":"2022-03-27T06:44:58","modified_gmt":"2022-03-27T10:44:58","slug":"pennsylvania-bill-would-require-paid-sick-leave-for-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pennsylvania-bill-would-require-paid-sick-leave-for-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"Pennsylvania Bill Would Require Paid Sick Leave for Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpennsylvania-bill-would-require-paid-sick-leave-for-employees%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1402366&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/justthenews.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/social_media_share\/public\/2021-06\/GettyImages-1231752595.jpg?h=12a37f3a&#038;itok=Ww4kuLJZ\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A proposed bill would require Pennsylvania employers to provide all employees with paid sick leave, going beyond current federal requirements.<\/p>\n<p>HB2439, introduced as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/billinfo\/billinfo.cfm?syear=2021&#038;sind=0&#038;body=H&#038;type=B&#038;bn=2439\">Health Family Healthy Workplaces Act<\/a>, was introduced by Rep. Jennifer O\u2019Mara, D-Delaware.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Healthy Employee and Healthy Workplace Act will help Pennsylvania\u2019s families by requiring employers to provide paid sick leave to their employees,\u201d O\u2019Mara said in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.legis.state.pa.us\/cfdocs\/billinfo\/billinfo.cfm?syear=2021&#038;sind=0&#038;body=H&#038;type=B&#038;bn=2439\">legislative memo<\/a>. \u201cWorkers would be able to use paid sick leave to seek treatment for an illness or a family member\u2019s illness, in addition to treatment related to domestic violence or sexual assault.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill would apply to all employers, regardless of size. Employees could use sick leave after 90 days of employment, accruing up to 56 hours or seven days annually. Employees could also carry over unused paid sick days, limited to 80 hours or 10 days annually.<\/p>\n<p>Critics questioned the necessity of the proposed bill, however, and worried about unintended consequences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe proposal is a classic case of government being too-little-too-late and may actually water down or eliminate benefits for Pennsylvania workers,\u201d said Elizabeth Stelle, director of policy analysis at the Commonwealth Foundation. \u201cA government mandate would undoubtedly be cumbersome and time-consuming, harming both the employee and employer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stelle noted that paid sick leave is already offered to most workers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEmployers are already responding to employees\u2019 demands for paid sick leave. The percentage of workers with paid family and medical leave has increased 64% over the past five years,\u201d Stelle said. \u201cAs many as 79% of workers \u2013 and 85% of full-time workers \u2013 have access to paid sick leave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>O\u2019Mara\u2019s bill is not the only way to offer more employee benefits, Stelle said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe real question is how to help the small percentage of workers that don\u2019t have this benefit. The answer is more flexibility, not more regulation. For example, the federal Working Families Flexibility Act would allow employers to give hourly workers the choice of accumulating \u2018comp time\u2019 in lieu of overtime pay,\u201d Stelle said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A proposed bill would require Pennsylvania employers to provide all employees with paid sick leave, going beyond current federal requirements.HB2439, introduced as the Health Family Healthy Workplaces Act, was introduced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":498,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1402366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/498"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1402366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1402366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1402366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1402366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1402366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}