[Buckeye McFrog]

The average person out there does not have the slightest idea of what payroll costs are or how they affect an employer.

Even Trump is out there pushing this, so chuck it onto my pile of bad ideas which are inevitable.

[Alberta's Child]

The whole idea of getting paid while you’re not working — in ANY form — is one of the most idiotic features of a modern economy.

A 40-hour work week translates to about 2,000 work hours in a year. My preference would be to pay my staff 15% higher than the market rate and let them take off 300 hours every year with no pay.

[wastoute]

Here’s the nut in this deal. If one concedes that “The State” has a “compelling interest” in the health and welfare of able citizens on the basis of a “national security” argument, you are surrendering your sovereignty out of the gate, so to speak. Once you have accepted this dangerous fiction you have to also concede the “State” essentially owns your body. The reason your healthcare is free is because you are a cog in the nation’s defense whether you like it or not. It leaves no room at all for “Valor” or “Patriotism” but only a grudging acceptance of slavery and servitude.

Nothing could be more UnAmerican, IMHO.

[ridesthemiles]

The average person out there does not have the slightest idea of what payroll costs are or how they affect an employer.””’

Absolutely correct.... they have no idea how hard a small business person works to keep the doors open & their paychecks flowing.

Trump is out there pushing this, so chuck it onto my pile of bad ideas which are inevitable.”””

IVANKA is pushing this——not so much Trump. He knows how much of a burden such paid leave is on ANY business. IVANKA isn’t seasoned enough to realize this and she may never be.

ALSO-— this is discrimination against those of us women who NEVER had any children.

Why should ANY employee in the same company as I be getting such a benefit??? In small companies, it is highly likely that NO temp replacement will be hired, and the work load of the missing woman on paid leave will be distributed among all the rest of the workers. (Been there-—did it—and the missing woman had NO paid leave. When she was supposed to ‘come back’ to work, she chose to stay home with new baby-—and presto ! — we did the work with the remaining women...no one was hired) When the owner has proven that the people who picked up the slack can do it all-—why should he bring back the employee who got paid leave???

I am totally against paid leave. NOT fair to owners or other employees.