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Categories: Consumer and Worker Protection, Corporate Accountability / Workers' Rights, Economic Fairness and Security, Ranting and Venting, Workers' Rights
Tony Fiore at the Ohio Chamber of Commerce takes a shot at paid sick days saying: "Ohio's small businesses will be hardest hit." Surely the Chamber of Commerce read the proposal and knows that all businesses with under 25 employees (read: small businesses) are completely exempt from the law.
The only good explanations I can come up with are:
A) Granting Ohioans a right even Ethiopia and Zambia have, will immediately cause big business to shutter. Small business won't flourish, but close the next day. By week's end, Morgantown, WV will eclipse Chicago in size. Ohio will revert to a hunter-gatherer society. In all this, small businesses will be hardest hit.
B) It's easier to stand up for the little guy than CEOs who strain families and risk public health to save a dime*, so it's 'ok' to lie.
If the Chamber gets their way, 2.2 million working Ohioans better dust off their wands because they're on their own.
*P.S. According to Harvard Business School and numerous other studies, paid sick days improve a company's bottom line.
