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Task force to study tax credits for Connecticut's paid sick days law hears small-business concerns
Summary
Sen. Julie Kushner convened the task force charged with studying tax credits and other offsets after last year's paid sick days law; small-business owners warned about overtime costs, impacts on under-18 workers and hiring, and asked for technical briefings from DRS and legislative researchers.
Sen. Julie Kushner convened the first meeting of a task force charged with studying how tax credits or other measures could offset costs to small employers created by Connecticut's recently enacted paid sick days law.
Kushner, who co-chairs the group with Rep. Manny Sanchez, said the statute phases in at least 40 hours of paid sick time for private-sector employees over the next three years and that the smallest employers (firms with five or fewer employees) are phased in later, with those provisions not taking effect until 2027. "Over the next three years, every employee employed in the private sector will have access to at least 40 hours of paid sick time," she said.
The senator emphasized the group's primary charge is to consider tax-credit options to lessen the burden on small firms, but she…
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