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Article: Paid family leave bill would hurt small business. (Opinion).(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
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- San Diego Business Journal
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- August 5, 2002
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A $23.6 billion state budget deficit and tax increases to solve it aren't stopping the Legislature from proposing a new paid family leave program funded by new taxes for both employers and working Californians.
State and federal family leave laws already require employers with 50 or more employees to provide unpaid family leave under specified conditions. But SB 1661 authored by Sheila Kuehl, D-Los Angeles goes further, establishing for the first time a 12-week paid family leave program for all workers, regardless of the size of the company for which they work.
To fund this new program, SB 1661 will increase the tax that workers pay into the state ...