No man's life, liberty or property are safe when the legislature is in session

Just a few of the geniuses, including hector arzeno, who have decided for you how to run your business

As of June 1st, small businesses must grant employees one week of paid “sick leave” which can be used for any purpose; in other words, a paid vacation.

HARTFORD —  After more than seven hours of debate, majority Democrats in the state Senate late Monday night approved legislation that would phase-in mandatory paid sick days for employees of progressively smaller companies. This came despite Republican claims that it would interfere in traditional negotiations over terms of employment and make it harder to do business in Connecticut.

Workers, including part-timers, would have to accrue 120 days of employment before being eligible for paid time off, for a maximum of 40 hours off per year. There would be an hour of time off earned for every 30 hours of work. While the legislation's title includes the notion of paid sick time, in reality, Kushner, co-chairwoman of the legislative Labor & Public Employees Committee, said the days off could be for any reason, without a physician's note.

Currently, companies with 50 or more employees are required to offer paid time off based on the number of hours worked. Under the legislation, companies with as many as 25 people would have to offer time off starting next Jan. 1. The threshold would decrease to 11 workers in January, 2026, and down to one employee in 2027.

If you run a small business with, say one or two employees, who would you trust best to decide how to run that business: yourself, or Hector Arzeno, the Democrat who represents you in Hartford? Has Arzeno ever even stepped foot in your store, let alone studied your books, or observed how your business operates? The answer is almost surely “not once”, yet Arzeno will answer that he knows better than you; you may differ, but you no longer have that right.

That same Arzeno, together with his fellow Democrats, failed to get gas cars and gas or oil furnaces banned by 2035, but you can be sure that they’ll be back, and with the Governor, Greenwch’s own, Paul Bunyon firmly behind the proposal, it will probably succeed when next these morons assemble.