The Up Coming Fight- Earned Sick Leave Drops In Jan 2013

ROC issued this great video about paid sick leave just a few days before yesterday’s Business Roundtable in City Hall.

As Randy Lobasso puts it in his Philly Weekly blog post, Councilman At-Large William Greenlee-

noted it’s perhaps “most ironic” that the food industry, which could potentially see employees handling food while sick (and, therefore, lose customers) would be against the bill.

Anyway, as you’d predict, the main restaurant lobby is against it.

“Any time you require a government mandate on the private sector, it dampens the ability to grow jobs,” Patrick Conway, CEO of the Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association, told PW last month, “and in many cases it actually reduces employment opportunities.”

I call Conway out in the comments section. Check it out.