press release
Philadelphia, December 1, 2014– Mayor Michael A. Nutter accepted the Mayor’s Task Force on Paid Sick Leave final report, containing recommendations on Paid Sick Leave policies in the City of Philadelphia. The report has a series of recommendations including: requiring employers with 15 or more employees to provide paid sick leave to qualifying employees, requiring employers with fewer than 15 employees to provide unpaid, earned sick time that follows the paid sick leave accrual requirements, a wait period for use and accrual of sick leave hours, retention of existing employer policies if they satisfy or exceed the accrual requirements, and requiring employers to keep records of hours worked, earned time accrued and sick time taken by employees for a period of two years.
\”Paid sick leave is a complicated policy question that profoundly impacts employees and employers,\” said Nutter. \”I did not support previous Paid Sick Leave legislation in the past because of the possible significant losses of job opportunities and the overall state of the regional economy. I do not want to put Philadelphia at a competitive disadvantage. However, our city’s economy continues to grow and is stronger than it has been in a long time. Since January 2013, we’ve announced more than $8.5 billion in recently announced, under construction or completed development projects. It was the right time for a
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