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Today's Poll: Should businesses be required to provide paid family leave?

By Howard B. Owens
david spaulding

amazes me how much the government wants to control our livelihood. The dictators are telling employers how much to pay employees, how they must insure employees and now they want to tell them they must provide paid vacations. Makes me wonder what is next...maybe mandatory pensions. it's all about control people. you will do what you are told or you will be arrested and if you resist arrest, you know what happens pop pop pop you're a dead man...... our government sux. can I still say that? if it is against the law, I was just kidding.

Apr 13, 2015, 4:46pm Permalink
Raymond Richardson

"and now they want to tell them they must provide paid vacations."

A paid leave is different than a paid vacation.

Obviously you didn't read the Times Union article, linked under the poll.

"When her 13-year-old son Mark was diagnosed with leukemia in 2011, Sheila Woodcock wanted nothing more than to care for him during treatments and be at home with him afterward.

But she was working part-time jobs at an urgent care clinic and a doctor's office. She and her husband, both Army veterans, needed every paid working hour to support their family life in Greenfield Center.

And when Mark died suddenly just shy of his 14th birthday, Woodcock was heartbroken not only by the devastating loss, but the lack of time spent with him in his final months."

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Gillibrand-leave-bill-could-chan…

Apr 14, 2015, 8:23am Permalink

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