Paid Family and Medical Leave Not Ready for Prime Time in Massachusetts, Supporters Say

The soon-to-be-implemented paid family and medical leave tax in Massachusetts has so many problems that its supporters are calling for a three-month delay in implementing it, and many state legislators who approved the bill last year agree. A coalition of labor and business groups who negotiated the so-called "grand bargain" last summer recently called for state legislators to delay the 0.63 percent payroll tax until October 1 instead of July 1, as currently provided by the new state law.

The soon-to-be-implemented paid family and medical leave tax in Massachusetts has so many problems that its supporters are calling for a three-month delay in implementing it, and many state legislators who approved the bill last year agree. A coalition of labor and business groups who negotiated the so-called "grand bargain" last summer recently called for state legislators to delay the 0.63 percent payroll tax until October 1 instead of July 1, as currently provided by the new state law.…