Paid Sick Leave Laws Generate Concern, but Not Much Pain

有給病気休暇法は気遣いを生み出すが、多くの痛手をもたらさない
July 3, 2013, The New York Times

2007年、新しい有給病気休暇法が、全米ではじめてサンフランシスコで施行された。その際、Atlas Cafeを経営するStone氏は、「小さい企業にとって痛手となる」と考えていた。
しかし、現在は、「この法律はいいことだと思っている」と話している。

この春、有給病気休暇は全国で議論されている。

Back in 2007, as a new paid sick leave law — the first in the nation — was about to take effect in San Francisco, Bill Stone was worried. Mr. Stone owns the Atlas Cafe in the city’s Mission District, and the new law directed him to provide his 21 employees with one hour of paid time off for every 30 hours
worked, up to nine days a year. "Basically, it’s just going to make it more
expensive to operate your business," Mr. Stone told NPR at the time. "Small business is going to have to pass that cost onto their customers."

Six years later, Mr. Stone admits to having been a little alarmist about paid sick leave. "As a small restaurant business, it’s really hard to make money,
and when they add another requirement, it makes you nervous," Mr. Stone
said in a recent interview. "But all and all, I actually think it's a good thing."