NFIB Weekly News

The New York Times (10/18, Ngo) reported that “paid leave...is one of the many proposals at risk of being scaled back or left out of an expansive social safety net bill that Democrats are trying to push through Congress.” The Times said, “While larger businesses have grown open to a paid leave program, some small business groups have pushed back against a federal mandate. Holly S. Wade, the executive director of the research center at the National Federation of Independent Business, said the group was concerned that a paid leave program would burden small employers since it would require more administrative reporting.” Wade was quoted saying, “While covering the cost of some of these mandates could potentially be helpful, in the way that an owner sees it, it just comes with a lot of paperwork, a lot of confusion and a lot of challenges.”