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Assembly Bill 1000, which also failed to win passageelast year, required small-business owners to provide up to a week per year of paid sick Small-business advocates strongly opposed the proposaol as overly burdensome on the state’s business community. They cheered the decision Friday. “Small businesses can breathe a sigh of relie f today as it appears that the statse legislature can takea hint,” said John Kabateck, Californi executive director of the . “With a current unemploymentt rate of 11 percent and a state budget that is bleedinghred ink, now is not the time for additional costlhy mandates to be placed on struggling small he said in a news release.
Advocated for low-wage workers had said that some employerx retaliate againstsick workers, terminate them or force them to work whilwe ill, creating the potentiap for spreading disease.