Daily News | City Council voted to require Philly employers to offer paid leave for COVID-19 absences through 2023
sparked a fierce debate about its potential impact on small businesses before being approved Thursday in a 12-4 vote.requires employers with 25 or more workers to offer up to 40 hours of paid leave if they are experiencing COVID-19 symptoms, need to self-isolate after being exposed, or have to care for coronavirus-positive family members, among other circumstances.
Still, Brooks, a member of the progressive Working Families Party, found herself on the defensive at Thursday’s meeting, with other members questioning everything from whether the bill could force small firms out of business to whether she properly circulated research on the bill to her colleagues. The federal government required paid leave for many workers during the first nine months of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, fully funded through a payroll tax credit. But the measure expired and was not renewed.
Council’s two Republicans, David Oh and Brian O’Neill, were joined by two Democrats, Domb and Derek Green, in opposing the bill. Green, a lawyer, and Domb, a real estate magnate, are known as business-friendly Democrats, and both are rumored to be eyeing the 2023 mayoral race. in Philadelphia that would hold and invest city money, instead of keeping the city’s funds in accounts at private banks. But he has run into limitations in state law, concerns that a public bank would be unduly influenced by political pressures, and skepticism about whether existing entities, like certified community development financial institutions, are better tasked to do the job.
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