As the baby boom generation reaches retirement age, many Pennsylvania municipalities face the potential of substantial knowledge and skill loss. To confront this challenge, municipalities continue look for ways to keep their seasoned employees long enough for knowledge transfer to occur. The problem can be finding sufficient incentives. For these employees, the most important benefit is often their pension. Therefore, municipalities’ ability to entice these employees to stay is often directly linked to pension distributions.
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A Tale of Two Cities: The Demise of Pittsburgh’s Paid Sick Leave Ordinance and the Durability of Philadelphia’s
Posted in Labor & Employment, Municipal Law
This post was originally featured on the McNees Labor and Employment Blog.
Back in 2015, Pittsburgh enacted a paid sick leave ordinance, following a trend among cities throughout the country. Pittsburgh’s paid sick leave ordinance required employers with fifteen employees or more to provide up to forty hours of paid sick leave per calendar year. Employers with less than fifteen employees were not spared. The ordinance required that those employers provide up to twenty-four hours per calendar year. The impact: 50,000 workers would receive paid sick leave.
But, what authority did Pittsburgh have to impose such a requirement?
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