Paid Leave Job Protection – a Disguised Threat to Upward Mobility.
Job protection is probably the least understood policy lever of government paid leave. It has extraordinary power combined with wage replacement …
Small Businesses Left to Figure Out a New Law That’s a Poor Fit for Them
Workers' advocacy groups have succeeded in imposing default business practices as mandates administered and enforced by our state department of labor. …
What can Colorado Learn from Washington State as They Roll out Their Ambitious Paid Family and Medical Leave Program?
Washington State joined the states offering a paid family leave program to their workers with legislation enacted in 2017. It began payroll tax …
New Jersey Workers Face Higher Paid Family and Medical Leave Premiums. Will Their DOL Get It Right?
The State of New Jersey’s Department of Labor has been struggling to set premiums after their legislature approved substantial increases in benefits …
We all lose when the unique points of view of businesses are dismissed.
It is a time-consuming disruption to engage in policy, yet proposals place burdens on small businesses that are often underestimated or dismissed …
Is One Path Enough?
How do policies limit our ability to innovate, learn and discover as we seek solutions? Too often policy makers craft a solution in isolation that is …
An outsider ventures into the policymaking process.
I had been following policy, but in 2019, took it one more step to better understand the "back of the house." I sense that this is only the …