July 10, 2018      6:45 PM
Mandatory paid sick leave shaping up as major local control fight at the Texas Capitol
Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio are the early battlegrounds; Republicans and business groups line up against it
Well ahead of the next
session of the Texas Legislature, the issue of whether cities can require
private employers to provide paid sick leave is shaping up as a major debate in
2019.
It’s a debate already
raging in several of the state’s largest cities.
By Scott Braddock
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