Governor Newsom has reinstated a requirement for California employers to provide COVID paid leave, without any usable tax credits or other financial relief for construction businesses.
Mandated COVID paid leave should include a dollar-for-dollar tax credit for California employers who, at minimum, pay premium wages.
To saddle California's highroad employers with the heavy costs of mandated COVID paid leave, with no path for reimbursement, is a gut punch to union-signatory contractors and puts their businesses at risk
Please take action and urge the Governor and Legislature to apply a dollar-for-dollar tax credit to the recently enacted COVID paid leave policy.