{"id":1047,"date":"2013-03-28T15:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-28T20:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/advocacy\/inside208\/post\/Senate-committee-passes-preemption-on-leave-time-for-private-employers.aspx"},"modified":"2013-03-28T15:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-28T20:18:00","slug":"senate-committee-passes-preemption-on-leave-time-for-private-employers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mml.org\/inside208\/2013\/03\/28\/senate-committee-passes-preemption-on-leave-time-for-private-employers\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Committee Passes Preemption on Leave Time for Private Employers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning the Senate Reforms, Restructuring and Reinventing Committee reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.legislature.mi.gov\/documents\/2013-2014\/billintroduced\/Senate\/pdf\/2013-SIB-0173.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SB 173<\/a>, a bill that would prohibit local units of government from passing an ordinance or policy requiring private employers to mandate either paid or unpaid leave time for its employees.<\/p>\n<p>While we do not know of any communities who have such policies or are interested in passing such policies, the legislation violates local control, and the League opposed the legislation.<\/p>\n<p><em>Samantha Harkins is the Director of State Affairs for the League. 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