| Paid Sick Leave Mandate To Be Pulled From Ohio November Ballot! |
| Thursday, September 4, 2008 12:06:49 PM - Middletown Ohio |
source: NFIB
Good news for Middletown, in a press conference this morning, backers of Issue 4 announced that a request would be made to have mandated paid sick leave removed from the November ballot. This announcement comes just one day prior to the deadline for doing so. Although Issue 4 will not appear on the ballot, the Service Employees International Union* (SEIU) vowed to make mandated sick leave a national priority and pledged to work in Congress to pass a similar proposal.
In August, NFIB released a study which found that Issue 4 would cost Ohio 75,000 jobs and would cost Ohio businesses $9.4 billion in lost sales. Shortly after the release of this study, Governor Ted Strickland and Lt. Gov. Lee Fisher joined the small business community, House Speaker Jon Husted, Senate President Bill Harris in opposing the mandate.
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The SEIU is a national union primarily in the health care field but also represents security guards and workers in the building services industry.
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