Vote NO on Issue #4

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Opposition Statement Issue 4

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Vote NO on Issue #4

November, 2008, election:Issue #4:Ohio’s “Healthy Families Act”

The Healthy Families Act calls for every company in Ohio of 25 employees or more to provide mandatory sick leave of seven days per year, which, if unused in one year, can be carried over to the next year.The sick time can be used for the employee, their parent, their spouse, or their child (including in-laws, adopted, step or biological categories.)

The North Canton Chamber, along with the chambers of the Stark County Chambers of Commerce Association, stands opposed to Issue #4. We believe that this is not the correct time for Ohio to be positioning itself as unfriendly to business, either to existing businesses or prospective businesses. In order to be competitive and help Ohio recover lost jobs we need to create cooperative, business-friendly, communities. Ohio will continue to lose new jobs to surrounding states which are doing opening their arms to new business and offering them incentives and promising them freedom from such restrictive mandates. Adding costly mandates to businesses struggling with the price of fuel and labor is not the way to create new jobs, but rather the reverse. Such mandates will result in the further deterioration of Ohio’s job market.

Please visit www.saveourjobsandbenefits.com and register your opposition to Issue #4. Visit their page, http://www.saveourjobsandbenefits.com/LearnMore/, to read the summary of reasons to oppose Issue #4. Visit the Ohio Chamber of Commerce website at www.ohiochamber.org for more information on Issue #4.

Your can register for a webinar that will take place on September 11, 2008, from 10:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m. by sending an email rsvp to jennifer.hertzig@bcgcompany.com. You will be given log-in information so that you can participate in the webinar with presenters Jim Krosky, SPHR, of BCG & Company and Hans Nilges, of Buckingham, Doolittle & Burroughs, LLP.

If you would like a copy of an in-depth presentation which has been reviewed by the Stark County Chambers of Commerce Association, please contact Cathy Dunlap at cathy@northcantonchamber.org, or by phone at 330-499-5100.

Here is another link to an opinion regarding the Healthy Families Act from Jonathan T. Hyman, a lawyer specializing in employment law from the firm Korhrman Jackson & Krantz: http://ohioemploymentlaw.blogspot.com/2008/01/deconstructing-ohio-healthy-families.html

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