SENATE BILL: Paid Time Off Act (Passed)

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To establish federal baselines for requiring businesses to provide paid time off to employees.

Be it enacted in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Republic of Atlasia assembled,

Paid Time Off Act

Section 1. Definitions
1. Employers - companies that employ 50 or more employees
2. Full-time employee - employees who work a minimum of 40 hours per week.

Section 2. Paid Time Off
1. Effective January 1, 2020, employers shall be required to provide 5 paid vacation days per year to all full-time employees.
2. Effective January 1, 2022, employers shall be required to provide 10 paid vacation days per year to all full-time employees.
3. Employers are permitted and encouraged to exceed these baseline requirements.
4. Regional governments are permitted to increase these baseline requirements in their region

People's Regional Senate
Pending

Sponsor: Devout Centrist for the President
Senate Designation: SB18:15

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The sponsor has 24 hours to commence an advocacy for the above legislation, all other members have an additional 48 hours in which to post their initial comments questions and concerns.

[Devout Centrist]

This bill, proposed by President Tmth will establish a minimum number of paid vacation days for employees in a company with more than 50 employees. This is a good bill which addresses a significant problem that plagues much of Atlasia's workforce. I'm largely satisfied with this bill and I think all Senators should vote in the affirmative,

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

I support this, especially since my employer keeps curtailing the accrual rate and has basically eliminated it for any part-timer who has been employed less than three years.

[Vern]

This bill has my support

[tmthforu94]

Thank you Senator Devout Centrist for introducing this bill on my behalf!

This was a proposal announced during my State of the Union address in May and our administration is following through on it. The numbers were discussed at length by the Domestic Policy Council and these were the numbers we agreed upon.

Why set the number at 50 employees or more? That was the RL requirement for Obamacare and seems to be a common baseline for separating small business.

There was discussion about whether the MINIMUM PTO requirements should be 5-10, the biggest concern with 10 is that it would be a big jump/adjustment for companies currently offering 0. Hence why it sets the initial number at 5, then jumps to 10 in 2 years.

We encourage employers to go above and beyond these minimums to provide support for our working class. I also want to remind regional governments that they can set requirements higher than this if they so choose, these are just the minimum federal requirements we want to put in place.

I am open to any questions!!

[Peanut]

Great bill, definitely. Very necessary for healthy workplaces in the Republic.

[ON Progressive]

I most certainly support this bill.

[Vern]

SENATE BILL

To establish federal baselines for requiring businesses to provide paid time off to employees.

Be it enacted in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Republic of Atlasia assembled,

Paid Time Off Act

Section 1. Definitions
1. Employers - companies that employ 50 or more employees
2. Full-time employee - employees who work a minimum of 3540 hours per week.

Section 2. Paid Time Off
1. Effective January 1, 2020, employers shall be required to provide 5 paid vacation days per year to all full-time employees.
2. Effective January 1, 2022, employers shall be required to provide 10 paid vacation days per year to all full-time employees.
3. Employers are permitted and encouraged to exceed these baseline requirements.
4. Regional governments are permitted to increase these baseline requirements in their region

People's Regional Senate
Pending

Sponsor: Devout Centrist for the President
Senate Designation: SB18:15

I put this Amendment forward. A lot of Companies see full time hours 35-40 hrs per week now a days.

[Devout Centrist]

This amendment is friendly!

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

SENATE BILL

To establish federal baselines for requiring businesses to provide paid time off to employees.

Be it enacted in the House of Representatives and the Senate of the Republic of Atlasia assembled,

Paid Time Off Act

Section 1. Definitions
1. Employers - companies that employ 50 or more employees
2. Full-time employee - employees who work a minimum of 3540 hours per week.

Section 2. Paid Time Off
1. Effective January 1, 2020, employers shall be required to provide 5 paid vacation days per year to all full-time employees.
2. Effective January 1, 2022, employers shall be required to provide 10 paid vacation days per year to all full-time employees.
3. Employers are permitted and encouraged to exceed these baseline requirements.
4. Regional governments are permitted to increase these baseline requirements in their region

People's Regional Senate
Pending

Sponsor Feedback: Friendly
Status: Senators have 24 hours to object.

[tmthforu94]

Supportive of this amendment.

[lfromnj]

TBH this actually makes me want to change up the rules for employees working full time. It really shouldn't be a sudden "welfare" cliff situation at 40 hours which dissuades employers from hiring one for 40 hours.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

TBH this actually makes me want to change up the rules for employees working full time. It really shouldn't be a sudden "welfare" cliff situation at 40 hours which dissuades employers from hiring one for 40 hours.

That is a very good point, since it would naturally incline employers to double down on the "OMG NO 40 HRS", one hears constantly especially in retail and similar sectors.

[lfromnj]

TBH this actually makes me want to change up the rules for employees working full time. It really shouldn't be a sudden "welfare" cliff situation at 40 hours which dissuades employers from hiring one for 40 hours.

That is a very good point, since it would naturally incline employers to double down on the "OMG NO 40 HRS", one hears constantly especially in retail and similar sectors.

Yeah Ik its unrelated but I am thinking of a bill. People think employers are greedy that they don't pay for 40 hours and instead hire people for 39 hours but can you really blame them when that's when you have to thousands of dollars more for one extra hour of work?

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

The amendment is adopted.

[At-Large Senator LouisvilleThunder]

Maybe we should consider some sort of sliding scale or formula to reduce the impact of the hour number cliff.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Quick someone call Encke and Shua

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

Lets not let this debate slip away from us like the others, lets keep it hot.

[Devout Centrist]

I'm willing to sponsor an amendment that will create a sliding scale for time off and add future phase in dates for more paid time off.

[Vern]

What if we do something like this..

companies that have 50 or more people working for them have to in their first year of working at the companies (after 90 days) have to match the amount of hours someone works in a week with the same amount of vacation hours. Then after 2 years that have to match the hours someone works in two weeks with the same amount of vacation hours.

For example: If someone works 25 hours in one week then the company give that work 25 hours of vacation time.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What if we do something like this..

companies that have 50 or more people working for them have to in their first year of working at the companies (after 90 days) have to match the amount of hours someone works in a week with the same amount of vacation hours. Then after 2 years that have to match the hours someone works in two weeks with the same amount of vacation hours.

For example: If someone works 25 hours in one week then the company give that work 25 hours of vacation time.

Isn't that rather extreme? It would esentially mean workers would spend 50% of the time on vacation, unless I am reading it wrong?

[Vern]

What if we do something like this..

companies that have 50 or more people working for them have to in their first year of working at the companies (after 90 days) have to match the amount of hours someone works in a week with the same amount of vacation hours. Then after 2 years that have to match the hours someone works in two weeks with the same amount of vacation hours.

For example: If someone works 25 hours in one week then the company give that work 25 hours of vacation time.

Isn't that rather extreme? It would esentially mean workers would spend 50% of the time on vacation, unless I am reading it wrong?

You are reading it wrong. Lets say Tammy works on avg 31 hours a week. Then she would get 31 hours of vac time during her first year and 62 hours in her second year.

While Bob works 23 hours on avg per week, He would get 23 vac hours his first year and 46 his second.

[Southern Senator North Carolina Yankee]

What if we do something like this..

companies that have 50 or more people working for them have to in their first year of working at the companies (after 90 days) have to match the amount of hours someone works in a week with the same amount of vacation hours. Then after 2 years that have to match the hours someone works in two weeks with the same amount of vacation hours.

For example: If someone works 25 hours in one week then the company give that work 25 hours of vacation time.

Isn't that rather extreme? It would esentially mean workers would spend 50% of the time on vacation, unless I am reading it wrong?

You are reading it wrong. Lets say Tammy works on avg 31 hours a week. Then she would get 31 hours of vac time during her first year and 62 hours in her second year.

While Bob works 23 hours on avg per week, He would get 23 vac hours his first year and 46 his second.

Well if you had said, "with the same amount of vacation hours per year", that would have been more clear.

[Vern]

What if we do something like this..

companies that have 50 or more people working for them have to in their first year of working at the companies (after 90 days) have to match the amount of hours someone works in a week with the same amount of vacation hours. Then after 2 years that have to match the hours someone works in two weeks with the same amount of vacation hours.

For example: If someone works 25 hours in one week then the company give that work 25 hours of vacation time.

Isn't that rather extreme? It would esentially mean workers would spend 50% of the time on vacation, unless I am reading it wrong?

You are reading it wrong. Lets say Tammy works on avg 31 hours a week. Then she would get 31 hours of vac time during her first year and 62 hours in her second year.

While Bob works 23 hours on avg per week, He would get 23 vac hours his first year and 46 his second.

Well if you had said, "with the same amount of vacation hours per year", that would have been more clear.

I'm suck with words, that is why I don't say much haha.