{"id":519,"date":"2012-11-20T13:42:52","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:42:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=519"},"modified":"2012-11-20T13:45:48","modified_gmt":"2012-11-20T16:45:48","slug":"the-up-coming-fight-earned-sick-leave-drops-in-jan-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=519","title":{"rendered":"The Up Coming Fight- Earned Sick Leave Drops In Jan 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XkyIdSYsRDk\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>ROC issued this great video about paid sick leave just a few days before yesterday&#8217;s Business Roundtable in City Hall.<\/p>\n<p>As Randy Lobasso puts it in his Philly Weekly blog post, Councilman At-Large William Greenlee-<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com\/phillynow\/2012\/11\/19\/councilman-bill-greenlee-now-says-paid-sick-days-bill-to-be-introduced-in-january\/\" onclick=\"__gaTracker('send', 'event', 'outbound-article', 'http:\/\/blogs.philadelphiaweekly.com\/phillynow\/2012\/11\/19\/councilman-bill-greenlee-now-says-paid-sick-days-bill-to-be-introduced-in-january\/', 'noted it\u2019s perhaps \u201cmost ironic\u201d that the food industry, which could potentially see employees handling food while sick (and, therefore, lose customers) would be against the bill.');\">noted it\u2019s perhaps \u201cmost ironic\u201d that the food industry, which could potentially see employees handling food while sick (and, therefore, lose customers) would be against the bill.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Anyway, as you&#8217;d predict, the main restaurant lobby is against it.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAny time you require a government mandate on the private sector, it dampens the ability to grow jobs,\u201d Patrick Conway, CEO of the Pennsylvania Restaurant and Lodging Association, told PW last month, \u201cand in many cases it actually reduces employment opportunities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I call Conway out in the comments section.  Check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ROC issued this great video about paid sick leave just a few days before yesterday&#8217;s Business Roundtable in City Hall. As Randy Lobasso puts it in his Philly Weekly blog post, Councilman At-Large William Greenlee- noted&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class='more-link' href='http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/?p=519'>Read the Post<span class='screen-reader-text'>The Up Coming Fight- Earned Sick Leave Drops In Jan 2013<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[40,36],"tags":[10,90,41,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=519"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":522,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519\/revisions\/522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thatfinalstraw.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}