Should FMLA be extended to apply to employers with less than 50 employees?
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August 11th, 2009
Would the cost to small employers be to high and hard to enforce and what about fairness to employees who work for small companies?
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they don’t have to pay you while on FMLA, you just are an employee on leave.
Not trying to dig into the politics of this, but a 25-person firm runs very differently than a 100-person firm. The layers of management once you get above a “unit tribe” size means that you need much more redundancy, which means that one person’s absence makes a much larger difference.
Anyway, the problem with the cost of any given program that permits an absence is that the company needs to continue functioning while that employee is out.
The pros/cons of goverment legislated work practices are left as an exercise for the reader =)
As an employer with 5 employees in one business and three employees in another, I can tell you that one of them would be able to handle it. The other would be very difficult. It really depends on the type of business. Training expenses can be crazy when training a temporary replacement.
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