Stop Government Wage and Benefit Mandates

Date: December 17, 2015 Last Edit: September 12, 2016

Small Business Challenges in 2016

The push to mandate paid leave, and other benefits that small business cannot afford, is taking place at all levels of government including federal, state and even local efforts. While NFIB has been successful in blocking these state and federal efforts, labor union activists in many states are now moving their paid leave strategy down to the local level.

NFIB efforts at the state level have resulted in legislation that would prohibit local governments from passing their own laws requiring a higher minimum wage or paid leave benefit greater than federal or state law. Public Act 105 of 2015 will make sure that a trend in other states – where cities have created their own minimum wage, paid leave, and even work scheduling requirements on employers – won’t happen in Michigan.

But now Labor unions and liberal progressive front groups are conducting a petition drive to put a mandated paid leave proposal on the Michigan statewide ballot in 2018! If the big labor unions and community activist groups are successful in getting this proposal passed on the ballot in the 2018 November elections, Michigan would have one of the most stringent paid sick leave employer mandates in the country. Any business with 10 or more employees will be required to provide 1 hour of paid leave for every 30 hours worked and employees could use up to 72 hours of paid leave every year and they could do so in 15 minute increments at a time! Advocates pushing this proposal are calling it “Earned Sick Leave” in order to make it sound as though every small business owes this benefit to their employees whether they can afford it or not or even if they already have a sick leave policy in place. 

NFIB will be working to derail this effort, but your help is needed to defeat this job killing mandate! Do not sign any petition promising “earned sick leave” benefits for workers.

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