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Farmers subject to new paid sick leave provisions in coronavirus package
An Extension economist says farms with employees need to be aware of the new sick leave law passed as part of the coronavirus relief package. Paul Mitchell with the University of Wisconsin tells Brownfield the Families First Coronavirus Recovery Act that passed in March took effect April first, and might be catching employers by surprise. He says, “It requires all employers, people who have W-2 employees to provide up to 80 hours of sick leave for employees affected directly by the COVID virus, so if you get someone who gets sick, by this new law you have to require them (to take) 80 hours of paid leave at their full rate.”
Mitchell says the new law provides a way to pay for the sick leave through payroll tax credits. “So, like let’s say you would pay the employee one-thousand dollars in this sick leave, just to make a nice round number, you can reduce your payroll taxes when you file your quarterly taxes by a thousand dollars, so it’s meant to balance out that way so you don’t have to be out money directly.”
Mitchell says the mandatory sick leave applies for all W-2 employees who have symptoms, are sick, waiting for test results, or under recommended quarantine by state rules or a doctor’s advice. He says farmers and all employers paying the extra sick leave should work with their accountant or tax specialist to make sure they get the appropriate tax credits.
Note: Mitchell also discusses some of the CFAP information for crop producers in the attached video.
The article reads: “It requires all employers, …who have W-2 employees to provide up to 80 hours of sick leave for employees affected … by the COVID … this new law … require them (to take) 80 hours of paid leave at their full rate.”
And absolutely ridiculous to excessive burden upon many small farmers (the riches poor people in America), since now they have to out lay cash to cover 2 pay roles, the sick and well, since crops are time dependent, to expensing additional cash on income not yet earned, to perhaps never to be realized. Since having liquid funds to distribute requires for many planning in preparation (money not growing on trees), the act not providing for such time, is an immoral imposition.
This over burdening for many farmers, shallow thinking act by detached conditioned takers in DC, is another indication that those in DC are squanders, simply limited by imagination. No “payroll tax credit” is close to being equal in “burden compensation”, to pay cash now. If void of self reflection politicians in DC want mandatory sick pay, then it is DC and NO OTHERS in this nation that should be held responsible to pay the sick, to having the financial resources available on hand and if not, why not, to stop asking to demanding others to do that which DC itself is not willing to do for citizens.
The shallow individuals in DC wanting all of the attention seeking, selfish face time social benefits, but not the mature task of performing, to producing detailed plans. DC, expecting those that are least able or have the least capacity to means (non industrial scale farms), perform the high level financial obligations, e.g. sales tax, property tax, gas tax, income tax…
Worst, this sneak of a measure (unethical) was and wrongly convoluted with an undisciplined, non checks and balance (no mature or valid cost figures, to no repayment schedule, nor source of repayment income) exercise that was never suggested to be practiced, or condoned by the nation in such form as per the US Constitution, because this undisciplined process and abused for decades, is void of any valid citizen representation (feedback), hence tyrannical measures that are passed or more correctly, forced upon the citizens, by those that will be least affected (sheltered) by such legislation.
In the future, since such questionable “emergency” status bailouts, have far greater impact on the finances of a nation then the admitting of a state to the union, thus potentially more harmful, to destroying nation via irresponsible finances (instant gratification), should like the process of admitting a state to the union, requiring the direct input of the citizens (special election), and responsible party. In short, the measure that was past as are all like measures that have been pasted in the last 4 decades, was not constitutional in form, process or spirit, thus an invalid order issued from DC.
Such bailouts are engineered and deviantly used (abused) as the most quick and simple, a.k.a. unscrupulous, path to transferring huge sums of wealth from one demographic to another demographic and without conference .e.g. taking candy from a baby simple because they can, not because they should. The “bailout” processes being unilateral, non democratic acts that are specifically structured with non disclosure buffers, to intentionally evade oversight (“we’ll know what’s in it, after we pass it”, Nancy Pelosi), by those which by default are the dominate, thus self serving, beneficiary.
In CA, this law is designed to transfer and illegally, wealth from US citizens to illegal alien farm workers, to being part of a greater, anti America mindset and selfish agenda a.k.a. progressive thinking, pushed by non contributing individuals, to criminal USA individuals such as the Gov of CA. or most every political representative in the void of integrity states of CA (saturated with enemies of the USA, conditioned takers, residents of convenience). Thus degenerate politicians in CA want to award illegal’s with $500 dollars, each illegal household $1,000 dollars, the politicians trying to buy future votes.
If average American citizens do not want to pick their own food (fruits, vegetables…), the fundamental task beneath them, thus EXPECT others to do that which they are not willing, to during trying times will not offer services to nation without selfish burden, then American citizens do not need to eat the food to perhaps, should not be eating the food.
The Constitution of the United States does not provide for, nor suggest the existence of a priority financial burden class (caste system like) in the USA, nor the permitted creating of a any discriminatory social class that has a blanket priory financial burden right or privilege upon citizens, thus remaining concurrent with the pursuit of tranquility. The passing of such burden also contradicting the tyranny clause in the Declaration of Independence, and greater obligatory condition, shared from the two documents. No able body and mind adult has an inalienable right to arbitrarily impose financial burdens.
Park McGraw