"Leave time and wage percentages will increase every year until the law is fully implemented in 2021, when employees will be eligible for 12 weeks of leave at 67 percent of their weekly wage. Some of the funding for this program will come from a new payroll tax that will also grow each year, starting at $0.70 and ending with $1.40 per week. In theory, this means that employers will not have to pay anything to give the worker this benefit, but some simple math shows that a program that gathers about $52 per year from each employee is unlikely to pay for itself."  MORE >>