Flouting Paid-Sick-Day Laws

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/09/opinion/flouting-paid-sick-day-laws.html

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To the Editor:

“Red States and Blue Cities: A Partisan Battle Intensifies” (front page, July 6) mentions the flawed argument by the industry-backed American Legislative Exchange Council that local laws create a “patchwork” of regulations for business. But when the coalitions in our network, which include many business partners, work to pass statewide paid-sick-day laws, these same opponents complain about one-size-fits-all solutions.

Now conservative legislators are working on a federal pre-emption bill, which would allow big companies that meet a voluntary threshold to flout local and state paid-sick-day laws. We cannot let them succeed.

ELLEN BRAVO, MILWAUKEE

The writer is co-director of Family Values @ Work, a network of state and local coalitions working for family-friendly policies.