New York has a habit of enacting policies that, rather than finding a balance, addresses the issue by creating burdensome regulations that are costly, overreaching and often untested. Nowhere is this more evident than with the paid-family leave program that is due to go into effect on January 1, 2018. The concept of paid-family leave is something most New Yorkers (including myself) agree with – that is, providing employees with the ability to take paid time off from work to care for a sick family member or to provide care for a newborn child. But as too often is the case in New York, our paid-family leave policy fails to balance the needs of the employee with the employer and pays scat attention to costs.
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