It sounds like a great idea---short and simple. I'd like to think something like that could work.
That being said to offer these things would potentially break our small business...especially since when folks lay out of work (sometimes sick, sometimes not) other people have to work double to cover for them and get the paper out. Each person has a specific job to do in the process. It's all the family can do to continue offering health coverage, the cost of which keeps doubling each year----if folks want additional perks then some folks are going to have to be let go (and to avoid that the folks at the top of the business were the first to take cuts already). If folks are getting additional paid days off where is the money going to come from to pay for their replacements? In a large corporation this may be easier to sweep under the rug but if you're running a business with 10-49 employees things are tight and the margins for slush nonexistent right now. The government is already very unfriendly to small businesses and I think there's some misconception of business owners as rolling in cash or something. Additionally, how to you determine sick days from vacation days? There will always be people who will burn sick days so as not to take away from their vacation time. Also, small companies are exempt from the Family Leave Act already - it puts undue strain on them and honestly, paying for 3 months maternity leave would place a lot of strain on small companies for something that is ultimately not their fault or their problem. There are consequences to every decision we make, and choosing to be a mother has consequences if you choose to work outside the home that affect not only the family but the employer. A worker has to be brought in and trained to replace the person on maternity leave so where does that money come from? There are a lot of difficult questions that would need to be answered before these ideas would be realistic without running the businesses that make up the backbone of our economy into the ground further.
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That being said to offer these things would potentially break our small business...especially since when folks lay out of work (sometimes sick, sometimes not) other people have to work double to cover for them and get the paper out. Each person has a specific job to do in the process. It's all the family can do to continue offering health coverage, the cost of which keeps doubling each year----if folks want additional perks then some folks are going to have to be let go (and to avoid that the folks at the top of the business were the first to take cuts already). If folks are getting additional paid days off where is the money going to come from to pay for their replacements? In a large corporation this may be easier to sweep under the rug but if you're running a business with 10-49 employees things are tight and the margins for slush nonexistent right now. The government is already very unfriendly to small businesses and I think there's some misconception of business owners as rolling in cash or something. Additionally, how to you determine sick days from vacation days? There will always be people who will burn sick days so as not to take away from their vacation time. Also, small companies are exempt from the Family Leave Act already - it puts undue strain on them and honestly, paying for 3 months maternity leave would place a lot of strain on small companies for something that is ultimately not their fault or their problem. There are consequences to every decision we make, and choosing to be a mother has consequences if you choose to work outside the home that affect not only the family but the employer. A worker has to be brought in and trained to replace the person on maternity leave so where does that money come from? There are a lot of difficult questions that would need to be answered before these ideas would be realistic without running the businesses that make up the backbone of our economy into the ground further.