NFIB/New Jersey Defends Small Business and Christie Against Paid Sick Leave Pressure

Date: August 19, 2015

As he continues his bid for his party’s 2016 presidential nomination, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie is holding strong in his pro-small business stance on mandated paid sick leave, despite amazing—and high-flying—pressure by Big Labor.

Above a Christie fundraiser earlier this month, New Jersey Working Families flew a plane with a banner that read: “Chris Christie Makes Us Sick.”

“While Governor Christie focuses almost exclusively on his presidential campaign, working families in New Jersey continue to suffer from his refusal to support earned sick time legislation,” New Jersey Working Families Policy and Communications Director Rob Duffey wrote in an email blast prior to the protest. “Nine New Jersey municipalities have passed their own earned sick time laws, but 1.2 million New Jerseyans still can’t take time to care for themselves or a loved one in the event of an illness. New Jersey advocates will protest their absentee governor’s opposition to earned sick time at a high-dollar fundraiser in Asbury Park.”

NFIB New Jersey State Director Laurie Ehlbeck defended Christie and the state’s small business owners.

“New Jersey has suffered tremendously since the great recession but make no mistake about it, if not for Governor Christie’s continued advocacy efforts for the small business community, things would be much worse,” Ehlbeck said. “The legislature has certainly not made it easy on our members, but we are thankful that the Governor has been able to veto many measures that would have no doubt resulted in stagnant job growth for our state.

“Paid sick leave in the state of New Jersey would discourage employers from hiring additional people,” she added, “and create a tremendous financial burden for the very backbone of our economy, the small business sector. We have heard overwhelmingly from the thousands of business owners that belong to NFIB that New Jersey policies should be focusing on job creation and retention, not burdening our entrepreneurs with regulations that make it almost impossible to continue to operate in the great Garden State.”


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