[John Jorsett]

The employer isn't going to be the one paying the worker for the time off. Each worker is going to have a special tax deducted from his/her pay and put into some state fund, and that's where the money is going to come from on the payouts. It won't cost the employer directly (until the inevitable increase in costs due to abuse prompts the politicians to start requiring the employer to pick up the tab, for the sake of 'fairness'). There will of course be indirect costs of finding a temporary replacement, training them, and putting up with the lower productivity that a temp worker will bring.

[Wolfstar]

Does this "special" tax come out of everyone's paycheck, including males and women who cannot have children? Or maybe the question should be asked this way: is this a thinly disguised income redistribution scheme? Whatever the answers, this sounds like another Leftist ponzi scheme boondoggle, where they rake in this "special" tax, use it for general purposes, and borrow to cover the costs of payouts. Oh, yeah, and the "special" tax initially goes into Gray Davis' version of Al Gore's lock-box.