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As a non American, may I ask why the sick leave policy only applies to companies with 50-500 employees? I couldn't find explanations there. Exempting small comp
by dx034 7y ago
As a non American, may I ask why the sick leave policy only applies to companies with 50-500 employees? I couldn't find explanations there. Exempting small companies is often done as they likely cannot pay for this measure, but why exempt large companies too?
- mehrdadn 7y agoYou'd have to ask the Republicans who apparently demanded this; I don't know what logic was behind it (if any).
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- purple-again 7y agoSmall companies with less than 50 employees are exempt because most of them cannot afford to pay employees for two weeks without receiving any labor and continue as a going concern. This is the same reason why most regulations exempt small businesses, because without it the only companies that could last would be mega corporations. On to companies with more than 500 employees. They are being exempt because they are large enough to afford paying for their own employees to go on sick leave with it only affecting the profit for the year rather than sinking the company. Now personally I think that 500 number should be 5,000 instead but at the end of the day any line you draw is arbitrarily arrived at (think some countries banning gatherings larger than 10, while others picked larger than 100).