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GOP state lawmakers aim to kill local sick-time measures (Florida)
The brutal political fight over mandatory sick time for workers in Orange County is about to move to Tallahassee, as two Central Florida lawmakers want to block locally driven efforts supporting the idea.
Sen. David Simmons, R-Altamonte Springs, and Rep. Steve Precourt, R-Orlando, say the proposed sick-time measures now being considered in Orange and Miami-Dade counties could put those counties at a competitive economic disadvantage. They argue that such policies should not be adopted patchwork-style across Florida.
"The discrimination that would occur to employers only in Orange County is so significant, we would need to have a statewide solution to this issue," Simmons said.
That could undo the efforts of Citizens for a Greater Orange County, a progressive coalition that secured more than 50,000 voter signatures to get the sick-time measure on the Nov. 6 ballot in Orlando. However, Orange County commissioners on Sept. 11 voted to delay the referendum.
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/politics/os-legislature-sick-time-fight-20130106,0,7355109.story
BTW, Why is Precourt still there? Who keeps voting for that guy?
