Last Friday, I testified before the House Labor & Workforce Development Committee on my paid vacation bill – HB 2238. This bill will ensure hardworking Washingtonians receive the paid time off they’ve earned.
KPLU has a good story on their website:
About one out of four American workers gets no paid vacation time, and the U.S. is the only industrialized country that doesn’t guarantee that workers receive some. Now lawmakers in Olympia are considering a bill that would make Washington the first state in the country to mandate that employers provide paid vacation days.
Under the bill, workers would start to accrue vacation after being employed six months. There are some exemptions. Businesses with fewer than 25 employees wouldn’t have to provide paid vacation time, for example, and people who work fewer than 20 hours a week wouldn’t accrue it.
Right now the workplace is a rat race. It doesn’t give people time off, it doesn’t give people any economic security and it doesn’t give people a chance to recharge.
Click here to read the entire KPLU story. You can also watch my committee testimony in the video below: