A new report commissioned by the Greater Madison Chamber of Commerce in its effort to block a proposal to guarantee workers paid sick leave paints a catastrophic picture of what would happen if the measure were to be approved.
….UW-Madison economist Laura Dresser said that credible studies have shown that the sick leave ordinance would affect about 17 percent of businesses in Madison, and those firms would face less than a 3.5 percent increase in their labor costs.
She said that there were “serious problems” with the methodology employed by Northstar Economics, a private consulting group.