Here’s a link to an article every small business owner should be reading and then directing email and snail-mail to the appropriate Congresssional contacts. Apparently there’s a bill in Congress to expand the current Family Leave Act to small businesses with 15 or more employees. That’s down from the current floor of 50 employees to qualify for mandatory participation.

Imagine a 15-man business with 2 people off for up to 12 weeks at a time! That would cause havoc in my business. Not only would I have to hire and train temp staff for only a 12-week period, but I get to pay the AWOL staffers, also! A double kick in the teeth.

This whole thing will be financed by yet another employer/employee contribution to still yet another pool of money managed by a gubment bureaucracy. Just what we need. Check it out and start emailing anyone who will listen in Congress or the Pres and his merry band of bill-pushers will get everything they want.

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