New York City Mayor Seeks Paid-Vacation Law for Private Workers

New York Mayor Bill de Blasio proposed requiring private businesses with five or more employees to give at least 10 days of paid vacation a year, a step that would extend the benefit to about 500,000 full- and part-time workers who currently don’t have it.

The law would guarantee two weeks paid vacation or personal time to every employee, including the thousands of airport workers, apartment-building doormen, retail workers and others without compensated days off. It would require approval by the 51-member city council, where it would have broad support among a Democratic majority that has already pushed the mayor to budget more than $100 million for half-fare discounts to some of the city’s poor on subways and buses.