MPS Committee to Vote on Sick Pay Benefit

The MPS board will be continuing its effort to increase its per pupil spending without doing anything to improve education. 

Tonight the Milwaukee Board of School Directors will vote on a resolution to support a paid sick days campaign led by 9 to 5, the National Association of Working Women.

The Journal Sentinel’s Georgia Pabst wrote about the campaign last month. The coalition of just over 40 groups wants Common Council to pass legislation that would require the city’s employers to offer employees an hour of paid sick leave for every 30 hours worked.

Board President Peter Blewett has introduced the resolution, which will be voted on in committee tonight.