American Legislative Exchange Council at State legislatures, with Yum! Brands, Darden Restaurants, Walt Disney and restaurant and business associations backing the preemption bills

What happened

Result: Wisconsin passed Senate Bill 23 in May 2011, overriding the Milwaukee paid sick days ordinance that voters had approved by referendum with over 70 percent of the vote in 2008. At ALEC's August 2011 annual meeting in New Orleans, legislators on the Labor and Business Regulation Subcommittee, co-chaired by Yum! Brands, were given complete copies of that bill as a model for state override, along with a target list and map of state and local paid sick leave policies prepared by the National Restaurant Association. A preemption bill was introduced in Tennessee and became law in Louisiana in 2012, and by 2013 similar bills had been introduced in Florida, Washington, Mississippi, Michigan, Arizona, Indiana and Oklahoma.

Milwaukee's ordinance was nullified by the state law. In Orange County, Florida, a sick-time measure backed by more than 50,000 signatures was kept off the November 2012 ballot by a delaying campaign that this reporting describes as coordinated by county commissioners working with Darden Restaurants, the Florida Chamber of Commerce and Disney, and in February 2013 a court found the county had violated the plain meaning of its charter by refusing to put paid sick days in front of voters.

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What this campaign is about

• Right to an adequate standard of living, security in sickness and old age, and special care for motherhood and childhood Pivotal · Universal Declaration of Human Rights