SANTA FE (March 6, 2023) – Following the Senate’s vote on SB 11, a tax hike on small businesses to create a one-size-fits-none, mandatory paid leave program, NFIB State Director Jason Espinoza urged the House to defend small business owners and their employees:

“In order to retain talented staff, our small business owners treat their employees like family, creating flexible working arrangements to meet their needs and keep their doors open. This bill scraps those arrangements for a one-size-fits-none mandate from lawmakers in Santa Fe. With a dwindling labor force participation rate, supply chain disruptions, and skyrocketing prices, our small businesses need greater flexibility, not a tax that will result in fewer jobs and slashed wages. We’re asking the House to stand with small business owners and the jobs they create for New Mexicans by voting against this burdensome mandate.”

About NFIB:

For nearly 80 years, NFIB has been the voice of small business, advocating on behalf of America’s small and independent business owners, both in Washington, D.C., and in all 50 state capitals. NFIB is nonprofit, nonpartisan, and member driven. Since our founding in 1943, NFIB has been exclusively dedicated to small and independent businesses and remains so today. For more information, please visit www.NFIB.com.

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