In a commentary for the Star Tribune, Minnesota Business Partnership executive director Charlie Weaver takes aim at the deeply flawed Paid Family and Medical Leave (PFML) bill being advanced at the State Capitol:
Minnesota’s large employers support paid employee leave. In fact, they voluntarily offer some of the most generous employee benefits in the country. Unfortunately, the current DFL plan would actually reduce paid leave benefits for thousands of Minnesota employees, force them into a new state bureaucracy to receive benefits, and impose a new payroll tax on nearly every employee in the state.
Read the whole commentary.