Bloomberg vetoes NYC sick leave law; override expected - Dallas
News |  Bloomberg vetoes NYC sick leave law; override expected
Posted: Updated:   NEW YORK (AP) -- Mayor Michael Bloomberg
nixed a requirement for many city businesses to provide paid
sick leave, but the City Council was expected to override
Friday's veto and make New York the most populous place in the
United States with such a law.  The measure, passed last month,
would provide an estimated 1 million workers with up to five
paid sick days annually. Hundreds of thousands of others would
get unpaid sick time, meaning they couldn't be fired for staying
home ill.  The veto was expected. In carrying it out Friday,
Bloomberg said the motivation was laudable, but the law would
burden businesses and saddle city regulators with checking out a
new realm of complaints.  "The bill, which will impose
significant new costs on employers and create a vast new
bureaucracy, is bad for the city's economy, and it will harm the
very people it seeks to help," his v