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Legislator Catherine Borgia (in red jacket left of podium) with Legislators, Nancy Barr (Port Chester and County Chair of the Board of Legislators, Benjamin Boykin, behind podium, leading raucous rally in the Michaelian Building rotunda today in White Plains, NY USA

WPCNR COUNTY CLARION-LEDGER. By John F. Bailey. February 14, 2018:

County Legislator Catherine Borgia and numerous labor organizations representing some 70,000 transit bus monitors, custodians, and other job positions announced she would reintroduce her  paid sick leave bill that was held in committee last fall by the Astorino administration.

The bill, if passed, would make it law that businesses with more than 5 employees and offering no paid sick leave would have to count the number of hours per week an employee worked and total them up to provide paid sick days for the employee.

The bill allows an employ to accumulate one hour towards a paid sick day for each 40 hours worked. If the bill as constituted became law, if an employee did not without paid sick leave, he or she would for each 40 hours worked earn an hour of a paid sick day.

WPCNR asked Ms. Borgia how many paid sick days would be earned  if  an employee worked 50 weeks with approximately  40 hours a week.

The employee would have earned 5 full sick days with pay, Borgia told WPCNR.

She told WPCNR the bill may change in committee to build in a retroactive feature, that loyal employees could use past work history to earn paid sick days more quickly.

Currently the bill does not include any retroactive service “credit.”

The news conference featured employees telling of their need to stay home to tend sick children and their loss of pay, and possible loss of job.