Milwaukee voters have approved a referendum requiring private employers in the city to provide paid sick days for all employees. The referendum gives full-time workers between five and nine sick days a year, depending on the size of their employer. Donna Skenadore is with the group Wisconsin 9 to 5, which was behind the proposal.
“We’ve got a really good written ordinance. It’s fair. It includes small business, large business. We took that into consideration. We don’t anticipate doom and gloom,” Skenadore says.
Mayor Tom Barrett disagreed. He says the measure would cost the city jobs.
“My concern is that it’s a well-intentioned measure, but I need to have jobs in the city of Milwaukee and I can’t have something that I think may discourage jobs in the city of Milwaukee. So my heart goes one way, my head goes another,” Barrett says.
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