The EA was first imposed to fund subsidies for Catamount Health (CHP), which was eventually repealed, lawmakers used some of the $18 million raised via the EA to “fill the $3M budget gap”.Read Full Article
The Governor proposed a plan that would have implemented a .7% payroll tax on employers to fund increased payments to health care providers.
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NFIB vigorously opposed legislation in 2014 that would require child care workers to join a union and pay dues in order to obtain state subsidies for their clients; unnecessarily increasing the costs for these small business owners. Read Full Article
Vermont law provided for automatic minimum wage increases every year since 2007, the House passed legislation that would have increased the minimum wage to $10.10 effective January 2015. But throughout months of debate, we were successful in phasing in the increase over four years (Effective 2015 to $9.15, in 2016 to $9.60, in 2017 to $10.00 and in 2018 to $10.50.Read Full Article